Coffee in Ethiopia and women

Here is yue shan, sharing coffee with Ethiopian women at the hotel we stayed in Gondar, Northern Ethiopia.
Did you know that coffee comes from a place in ETHIOPIA, from a kingdom called Kaffa.
Coffee is part of the culture in Ethiopian mountains, where folks drink an OBLIGATORY 5 cups a day, a break from work [...]

Sudan: The Road East to Ethiopia

The journey from Khartoum to the border Ethiopian town of Gallabat (Quallabat) takes two days.
The first 410 km can fairly easily be covered by a bus ride on a mostly tar-ed road all the way to a small town called Gedaref.
The next day, after sleeping in  a very run-down hotel (the only option)  it is [...]

Alien Registration in Khartoum, Sudan

A story of how I tried to save $10 in Sudan.
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A Japan traveler in his 40s, a Tokyo-based kitchen-sink seller (really!) whom we shared a burger meal with last night ran into us this morning, sweating, sighing and barely able to mutter these words:
“Registration is difficult!”
It seems like he is having a field day [...]