Blue Nile Falls

I didn’t sleep well last night.  This has been the case on-and-off during my Ethiopian trip.  It might be the Lariam I’m taking, or just the awkward sleep patterns that’s required for all the early bus trips.

We left around 0930 for the bus station for a short outing to the Blue Nile falls at Tis Abay.  It was a one hour bumpy ride.  I was prepared to be disappointed as the river had been dammed … and it is also the dry season.  While not of the proportions of the great waterfalls of the world, it was still impressive.

Unfortunately, we were very badly pestered by children selling their wares which comprised of mainly scarves.  I pride myself in having that disinterested look when it comes to shopping.  So it was a surprise that I should have been so bothered by them.  Rather unusual for cool ole me.  To make it worse, there were other people making a nuisance of themselves, eg. trying to organise your return transport to Bahir Dar by telling you to expect problems getting on the buses as it was a market day.  Bollocks.  I somewhat intentionally lost my cool for a change in order to get rid of them.

The afternoon was free except for a quick trip to Ethiopian Airlines to update our phone number with them, and check on whether our airport tax out of Addis was already paid.  Having skipped lunch, we had dinner around 1700 and was preparing for bed around 1830.