Road to Awash. Awash National Park has potential… it has great ex-volcanoes all around… its warm after the highlands…

.. it also has a great – if muddy – waterfall, overlooked by a really good lodge with excellent facilities and good campsites (hough groundtents not rooftents). But even though the park fees are low, its still too much to pay for spotting camels and goats…

After the crazy heat of the Afar-Asseb road, it was a joy to turn towards Dessie, and the highlands…

…just in time for a Lalibela sunset…