8 Mar 2013 (2) Colobus monkey
8 Mar 2013 (3) 'Good Luck' flowers
8 Mar 2013 (4) Lance by termite mound
8 Mar 2013 (5) Chris presenting good luck flower to Jemjem
8 Mar 2013 (6) l to r Bruce, Jemjem and Chris in DUBAF compound, Hara Qallo
8 Mar 2013 (7) Chris leading the banquet in the DUBAF compound
8 March 2013 – We bade a fond farewell to "Sam the desert Man" (A moniker given to Sam Vander Ende by Khalif Ahmid Farah, one of our Pastoralist Concern guides on our rough drive through the desert to Qundhi). Sam returned to Addis today thinning our group to a single truck driven by Danny, plus Abdi, Chris, Bruce and Lance. Our destination today was Hara Qallo. En route we travelled through semi-desert alpine (and saw a rare Semien fox) in the Bale Mountains Park, also called 'The Red Fox' locally. [Link to: http://www.selamta.net/bale_mountains_national_park.htm] In the tropical rainforest we saw a number of Colobus monkeys before travelling back to semi-arid farm lands in Hara Qallo (05.55241 N 039.39376 E).
We settled in to the Dubaf Yelimat Mahibar (DUBAF) compound and were hosted by Jemjem Udessa, executive director of DUBAF and were immediately fed a large lunch. After discussing DUBAF projects with Jemjem we were treated to yet another traditional Ethiopian feast in the evening with a coffee ceremony, gifts (including individual books written and signed by Jemjem) and local singers who performed into the early hours of the morning. [Link to: http://www.dubaf.org.et/site/about.html ]
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