We didn't know a lot about Ethiopia before we started this process. One thing we discovered is that it's very mountainous. The altitude of Addis Ababa is 7900 ft, the third highest capital in the world. It's also very beautiful. Since we traveled during the dry season, we had beautiful sunny days in the upper 70s and cool nights in the 50's.
This is a view from the rooftop of the guest house. All the houses we saw had 10-foot cement walls surrounding them with coils of barbed wire on top. Only the wealthy had homes like this--maybe 10 % of the population. Most homes were "constructed" of propped up corrugated metal and random scraps of plastic, wood, and metal. The streets seemed to be a free-for-all for cars, buses, pedestrian, and animal traffic. We saw many goat herders on busy urban streets allowing their goats to graze while waiting for people to purchase them to take them home for dinner.
