Recently in Ethiopia Category

Aiming at a feasible approach for the conservation of natural forests in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, dwellers there offer ecotourism program of hiking and horse riding exploring Bale Mountains.

In the year of 2000, the second year of my stay in Ethiopia, I had been there with colleague Korea Overseas Volunteers (KOV). I never dreamed of such a great experience until the arrival there. My story from that place, thereafter, became one of big topics to speak about Ethiopia's nature.

Today, I came across official web pages of the trekking program. Get excited with information and enjoy photos by visiting this link. Photos below show eco-friendly slaughter that I performed with the help of guides and colleague volunteers. :-)

Korean usually complains the decrease of appetite from excessive sodium loss by sweat and after exhaustion of physical power in struggle against hot weather during summer season. Simple solution to revive appetite is to visit restaurants serving spicy and/or cool food. Enjoying home made recipe like "seaweed and vinegar over cold water" will be another way.

In search for memory how I sustained during dry season in Addis Ababa (not so hot as you imagine, though; refer to this link), I could enumerate what I usually chose for lunch and dinner to stimulate appetite. Then I revisited Ethiopian cuisine pages from Wikipedia and my bookmarks reminding me of real shape, color, odor, and taste. However, I can't prepare Ethiopian style dinner table at home now because several core ingredients are not available in Korea.

We call this situation, "A pancake in a picture" :-) The photo below is to show you how much I enjoyed Ethiopian food.

I had never been to Lake Tana, the origin and source of Blue Nile River during my stay in Ethiopia. This place has been thought of just as a lake for me till now. One article, titled "Egypt and the Hydro-Politics of the Blue Nile River" by Daniel Kendie surprised me by delineating SO SO complex issues born of historical, cultural, economical, political, religious background around the corner of the Horn of Africa. You can get a certain insight about what's going on there in connection with water resource.

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• 2007 베를린 마라톤에서 게브르셀라시가 2시간4분26초로 세계 기록 수립
• Haile Gebrselassie broke the marathon world record in Berlin (2H:4M:26S)

에티오피아 있을 때 지나가다 본 적 있는 아저씨 인데... 오늘 세계 기록 수립!!! ㅋㅋ

The celebration of Ethiopian millennium in Tokyo! For more details, look up this link written both in Japanese and English. News article related with the event is available.

Now, look it up from this link with my annotation!

It was the first rural area visit upon my arrival in Addis (July 1999). Experiencing wildlife and staying with local residents could be enough cultural shock on me. More understanding of people and way of their life kept me inside their society even in Addis Ababa. Though physical condition was unfavorable (I am afraid, still is), excursion to Langano lake became the central part of life long memory.

In Ethiopia, there are so many and big lakes along, called, Rift Valley area. The lake Langano is safe enough for entertainment in it. Everybody can enjoy swimming, boating, fishing, and any other inner-lake activities. Refer to UNDP health guide (may be obsolete, though)

Click: Lake Langano photo archive

수도 아디스 아바바에 2년 넘게 있었지만, 이런 환경을 실제로 본 적이 없음. 사진이 있으니까 실제 상황이겠지만 약간의 충격임. 여기 BBC 링크에서 사진과 설명을 볼 수 있음. 영어로~~~

I never dreamed Google in Amharic.

에티오피아어 구글이 있을 줄은 꿈에도 생각 못했음.

Since the end of 2001, returning back to Korea from Ethiopia, no further information was available regarding the fight over what they faced. It is attributed, of course, to my indifference. Today, I could locate one of NGO operation sites in Ethiopia, called Awassa Children's Project.

Here below, access URL is available.

[Awassa Children's Project]

[Video Clip (10 min.)]

Movement by performance, another type of endeavor, we can experience indirectly from there.