louiseinlimbo

Carrying straight on from Kuwait, with not enough time to finish mentally processing my Iraq holiday, I arrived in Addis Ababa and met some of my new tour companions as we boarded the internal flight to Semera.  Although I didn't meet two of them until I got into a car the next morning for the start of three days of sharing a vehicle ... wondering if I would have got into that particular car if I had known. For we were starting a three-day trip into the Danakil region of northern Ethiopia that included on the first day a six-hour drive along what has been described as the worst road in the world, bumping over the lava field iin the picture above, to cover a distance of just 80km.  Thankfully I enjoy road journeys.  Maybe in part because I've never driven, and so have no issues with someone else being 'in control', but I get pleasure from looking out of a window at the scenery, and I rarely experience any physical discomfort, no matter how long the journey. Here I was co...