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Bale Mountain Lodge

Posted on 15 Sep 2014 by lornaofarabia

At a party our first year in Addis I met a British man named Guy who told me about an upscale eco-lodge he was building in Bale Mountain National Park (pronounced with two syllables BAH-lay, not like a bale of … Continue reading →

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A day on the Sanetti Plateau

Posted on 13 Sep 2014 by lornaofarabia

We wondered whether we would see any Ethiopian wolves on the plateau. There are very few of them left in the world. Last year the count for this endangered canid was about 500 over six small regions, one of which … Continue reading →

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The little Hilux that could

Posted on 12 Sep 2014 by lornaofarabia

I don’t have a car right now, so I hired a driver with a Toyota Land Cruiser for a four-day weekend trip to the Bale Mountains. Thursday’s drive to the lodge went well. But this morning we took the car … Continue reading →

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