feeding the hyenas and kites of Harar
After the Danakil, we were joined in Ethiopia by a few more people (those who didn't want to camp out). We explored Addis Ababa - the best bit for me being an impromptu evening out for some of us when a group member found information on a very hip bar with live music (Ethio-jazz followed by traditional music - drums and masengo) - and then moved on to Dire Dawa, where the highlight was the old train station, completed at the start of the last century for a train running between Ethiopia and Djibouti, and now partly abandoned but with some working to refurbish old wooden train carriages using salvaged parts and equipment left lying around. Then we were off to Harar, a beautiful and atmospheric city I visited in 1997, but where I missed out on one activity, something I've regretted ever since. That is the nightly feeding of the hyenas. Started more than fifty years ago I think, first by one family and now I believe a second family do the same, just at the edge of t...