There were the usual sights along the way, traditional houses...
Alaba ethnic group people who seem to like emulating chariot drivers
Traditional high hats of the Alaba people
A traditional painted Alaba hut
Roadside activity
More donkey cart obstacles
School girls on the way home
We dropped down in to the Rift Valley again..
In to Oromo ethnic group region, a Muslim group, passing lots of small mosques..
..before entering busy Shashemene...
..for lunch..
...including some local bread with a spicey berbere sauce...
...watched over by lots of vultures.
We climbed out of the valley to a large scale grain producing area set up under a collective system during the short period Ethiopia flirted with socialism
Still colourful Oromo village houses...
...and basic huts in the farmland
There was also large scale cattle grazing, with real horsemen
Late in the afternoon we caught sight of the Bale mountains...
..passing higher altitude villages
..and then entering the park itself at the open Gaysay Grasslands
We stopped at park headquarters in Dinsho...
...and did a ranger guided walk...
...seeing Menelik bush buck...
...warthogs...
...doe and Buck nyala..
...red hot pokers...
..and bohor.
Overnight was at the Wake Shebelle Hotel in Goba.
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