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Perception Versus Reality In Travel

It was late April and the Ethiopian high­lands had been rolling beneath my wheels for sev­eral days. Inch­ing towards Dji­bouti, I con­sul­ted detailed road-engineers’ maps of the coun­try to plan my route, and found an enticing-looking dirt track through the Afar region of the infam­ous Dana­kil Depression. I’d developed some­thing of a romantic fas­cin­a­tion with [...]
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