Rira pictures

The following are a bunch of pictures of my dad's and my trip to Rira. It's an absolutely stunning place! Makes you feel like you're walking through Fangorn forest.

We did a lot of traveling when my dad was here too. We went to the Bale Mountains National Park and stayed in Dinsho, Rira, and Goba with some of my fellow volunteers. It was a blast and we saw tons of animals, beautiful scenery, did some hiking, and just really enjoyed the beauty of nature. Here are a bunch of pictures of our time in Dinsho.

Dinsho Scenery

Male Nyala

Warthogs

My friend Brian and I

Dinsho Scenery

Male Nyala

I think this is a bushbuck, but I'm not sure . I've forgotten...

Dinsho Scenery

A young Shepherdess

Young male nyala

My dad, on one of our hikes

Nyala

Dinsho Scenery

Dinsho Panarama

Dinsho Scenery

Warthog skull

Nyala

Scenery

Pictures from my dad's visit

The following pictures are from our time in Mizan.

The zonal agriculture office organized an environment day for Mizan/Aman while my dad was in town. We got to participate in the day's events. This is my dad planting a tree.

Planting trees on environment day.

I also did several environment day activities with the local high schools. We had planted several nursery beds of seeds in march, and were able to do the transplanting with the students during the time that my dad was there.

I love this family. It is my good friend Meheret's (not pictured here) family. She moved to Addis about a year ago, but her mom and two little sisters still live in Mizan. I visit them from time to time and was able to introduce my dad to them as well.

shakla Tibs. This is one of my favorite foods here! It's just cooked meat (cooked in the lard of the the cow the meat was taken from) eaten with bread or injera. SO good!

We killed this rat in a trap the first night my dad was at my house (I'm on 10 rats now by the way!)

This food is called 'Bayaynet'. It's a vegan dish that is eaten frequently here. I love it! It's an assortment of vegetable and lentil dishes.

My dad drinking local fruit juice.

My neighbor, Rabiya, and her son Amar.

Me with Rabiya's little girl, Eekma.