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| Morning frost in the Simien Mountains |
Up early on cooking duties, frost is still on the ground, so i'm probably closer to a white christmas than if i'd have stayed at home
The cook team underestimate the time it takes to boil a kettle of water at altitude - around 45 minutes next time you are camping at 3,600m
However the fried tomatoes, baked beans and eggs make up half an english breakfast, the lack of a tesco express puts the other ingredients on hold. All washed down by a glass of honey wine, which, judging by the way the top exploded off the bottle, had been fermenting the past 3 days.
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| Culinary masterpiece |
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| Christmas cook team with Danuta & Thomas |
After breakfast & while the tents are drying out there's yet more photo opportunities with the Baboons, Ibex and Lammergeyer all within 100m of the camp.
On the way out of the national park we stop for a coffee, or something stronger at the Simien Mountain Lodge, the only hotel in the park & with a claim to be the highest bar in Africa.
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| the highest bar? |
We arrive back in Debark early afternoon before a christmas buffet meal where Anya, our Drago leader has managed to produce a number of decorations and even some mulled wine.
There's another couple across the bar with a birthday to celebrate, so the meal is rounded off with some birthday cake. The lady then kindly offers us some local red wine before they leave, after tasting the wine it was perhaps not such a kindly gesture rather a way to empty the bottle so they could leave.
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| The full party |
Merry Christmas Everyone..
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