After our landing in Adis Abeba, we were all very excited to go South, to get closer to our final destination, Nechisar National Park. To reach this destination we had to cross a 450 km long hot road. It took us 9 hours but the trip was worth the time. After some hours driving we saw our first Whettled ibis, an Ethiopian endemic. We could approuch them very close so we were able to take some nice pictures and videos of the fouraging animals. While Ruben and Frederik were walking back to the car Michiel, Eddy, Zsofia and Doortje were excited about two other fantastic birds on the other side of the road. Two magnifiant tawny eagles were eating from what was probably a freshly killed prey. While eating they were continuously mobbed by a couple of black kites. Fantastic!
A toilet-stop took us to a small, next-to-the-road, coffee shop. The owners were very excited to let us taste their coffee (and it wàs good, Ethiopia is a real coffee-country).
The final stop was without doubt the best! We parked the car on the bridge of a very nice river and followed the river upstream untill we reached a waterfall with a small sandy beach in front of it. Very beautiful, could be the scene of a movie!
We enjoyed it but we didn’t want to wait too long. Nechisar National Park was waiting on us and we were waiting on Nechisar National Park. We arrived in Arba Minch in the early evening and stayed in the nice Arba Minch Tourist Hotel where a very tame duiker (deer-species) was welcoming us in the hotel garden. We had a very good sleep probably the last in a real bed for a long time!
Expedition "solala" 