Tag Archives: Horn Of Africa

Images From Two Years On The Road

By Tom | Published: October 10, 2009
Travel offers enviable opportunities for developing creative skills such as photography. I’ve enjoyed taking these shots immensely, and I hope you enjoy viewing this whittled-down selection of what I think are my best snaps of all. Only the first few photos are shown here. It’s better to go and view the complete album on Flickr [...]
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Perception Versus Reality In Travel

By Tom | Published: September 30, 2009
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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One Man, One Bike, And Six Hundred Cows In A Boat

By Tom | Published: May 12, 2009
At seven o’clock one May morning, as the sun was just beginning to make felt its long ascent into the heavens, a wooden Arabian cargo vessel set sail from the Port of Djibouti for the distant shores of Yemen. On board were an eclectic and rowdy Arab crew, a handful of Somali passengers, six hundred [...]
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Notes From Afar, The Hottest Place On Earth

By Tom | Published: May 6, 2009
I gazed out across the plains from my vantage point by a military watch-tower at the eastern edge of the Ethiopian highlands. I was about to leave the familiar craziness of Amhara and to cross the Afar desert, the site of the hottest air temperature ever recorded, and the home of the nomadic Afar tribes. [...]
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