Starts at 7 minutes from the start.
Lots of questions answered. For example, find out why hooking up with a local charity, and having paper maps is important. Also find out what Ethiopia, Gabon, Mongolia, and the Sahara have in common.
Category: Ethiopia 🇪🇹
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Check out the Ethiopia Destination Profile.
In this episode Dan explores Ethiopia, from the remote Lake Turkana border crossing in the South, through the mountains, the capital of Addis Abba and then to the Simien Mountains in the North! AK-47s everywhere.
In this episode of The Road Chose Me, Dan Grec overlands from Kenya to Ethiopia along the remote Lake Turkana.
Adventurer Tristan Ridley is on a quest to ride his bike around the world. But unlike many other riders with that same goal, Tristan isn’t in a race against time. In fact, his circumnavigation will take as much as five years, over 100,000 kms, and travel through more than 100 countries.
Videos:
Ep. 2 – Bicycle touring and bikepacking through Norway in May 2018
Ep. 3 – The Jordan Trail, from Amman to Aqaba
Ep. 4 – Surviving Ethiopia
Landlocked countries shown in Green. Double landlocked are shown in Purple
Joey L writes:
For centuries, Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley has been a crossroads for many distinct tribes. During times of drought, natural resources become scarce, escalating clashes between groups. In an ever-changing landscape, young men and women come of age in an unfamiliar time.
The story is narrated from two unique perspectives. Uri- a young boy from the Hamar tribe who becomes a man during his rite of passage ceremony, and Segelgwo- an elder chief of the Daasanach, who reflects on his community’s uncertain future.