Day 26  ·  Ethiopia  ·  7 716 km from Cape Town

Addis Abbaba

HISTORY LESSONS

We set out today with a mission and found a taxi and secured it for the day. First was the experience of coffee at Tobocca - a famous coffee house and we enjoyed a cup of the strong stuff, then we were driven to a pleasant market where we all bought some local goods for those back home. Our obliging driver then took us across town to the National museum - a rundown affair but it does house Lucy and so we enjoyed that. Back across town and we went to more modern museum ‘The Red Terror Museum’ which was a very interesting if sometimes a little harrowing account of the terrible rein of the military Derg that overthrew Emporer Haille Selassie in the early seventies and ruled brutally for three decades. A little disturbed by the exhibits we took off once again across town to collect our passports from the friendly Sudanese embassy people - Tango

Photographs from this day