Searching for the hidden paintings in southern Ethiopia

We have been warning of the presence of a cave with rock paintings in southern Ethiopia, near the border with Kenya, near the town of Yabelo, we can do is go and see ...

 

Addis Abeba - the beginning

Addis recover after 3 years of absence is like meeting an old friend ... the feeling of change is always present as three years ago, but in reality everything has remained unchanged, the usual piles of rubble, the usual sites, the usual beggars usual discomfort. Then you look carefully around you and realize that maybe there are fewer beggars, many buildings multi-storey, more yards, more debris and certainly more cars. The goal of our stay in Addis is purely bureaucratic, administrative and representative: allowed to wander in the desolate valleys of South Ministerial letters of recommendation, dinners at embassies and cultural centers and so on. Nothing prevents us in the few hours that remain available to tour the city and its attractions. And then away again to review the copy of Lucy in the Archaeological Museum and the (beautiful) Ethnographic Museum, the Cathedral self-celebration of Haile Selassie and the Monument to Menelik, the long, busy and all uphill Churchill Road, the now increasingly most decadent Piazza, cutting attracted walkers, excellent bakeries where (contrary to the most elementary rules preventive) gorging cake with cream, streets unpaved and littered with waste inerpicantisi on the outskirts of the hills that surround the capital, argue with all drivers who have not the faintest idea of where ask you to take (try to ask to take you to Quenn Elisabeth Road and you'll see ...), lussuossimi the Hilton and Sheraton, the huge and hot Meskel Square is decorated with big screens that broadcast advertising 24/24 h, and so on. In short, nothing has changed in 3 years but everything seems to be sometimes better sometimes worse. Addis is a city memorable, is not beautiful, not much to see but it is extremely lively during the day and night. Go along with the desire to come back and stay to live there, who knows why? However, it is time to pack, the valleys and the peoples of the South ahead and return to Addis after nearly a month of comfort not always a very positive effect.