I feel like I have been travelling for months. I have been soo far and done so much. It has been amazing to realise some of these people still live like this. I have had a guide with me ,Fitretu, and it has generally been a positive experience. I am sure I could have found accomodation, maybe not the same but similar. The accomodation was always good. Not always with my own bathroom but I can live with that here and there. The ones that did have bathroom ALL had ...

The Mursi are the tribe most people come to see. They are the most outrageous. They put on their ceremonial gear for the tourists and charge 5birr per photo. They are uneducated but they can all count camera clicks and multiply by 5 with perfect accuracy. With a few tourists in the village it turns into a circus with everyone pushing and shoving to get their photo taken. I met one of the tribal elders who had been to Sydney and studied linguistics and he is tryin...

I have typed this one 4 times and lost it so this is the short version. Six hour bus ride from hell to get there, just near South Sudan border and realatively good ride back. Was well worth it to spend time with the Nyangatom people. I was really sick last night but woke up fine this morning.

We had a late start today. After being up at 2.30 this morning doing my blog it was good. We had breakfast just down the road from my hotel. That is the third meal I have had here. Fitretu hired a motor bike this morning and we spent the morning touring around in the hills around here. First was a dinky museum and a show or an old BBC doco by Bruce Perry about the bull jumping. I have seen it a few times before.. After this we headed further into the hills to v...