A 7.09 start and long day heading out of Bahir Dar on a 240km off road section through the most lovely country with lots of villages, lots of people, donkeys, sheep and goats, mostly on the road, winnowing the wheat by hand and building giant haystacks. Then we drove down the Blue Nile Gorge and up the other side, incredible. Very fertile country full of thousands of happy smiling people waving at us and order being maintained by policemen and soldiers waving sticks and quite a few with rifles over their shoulders. Saturday is market day and they were all busy walking along the road with their sheep and goats and driving donkey carts and carrying bags on their heads. When it got dark, though they had no lights and it was impossible to see them until we were upon them. We had a very long and stressful journey for about 1 ½ hours of darkness facing lorries with high beam as well as the people and donkey carts. All very scary. Got into the hotel eventually, after 13 hours flat out, and were met by a charming lady ex rally driver and her daughter and helped into the hotel by them. We were both virtually unrecognisable for the dust, and so was the car which for some reason we had had cleaned in Bahir Dar. Suzy needed two showers to get clean and even then the towel was filthy when she got out.
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