Category: Africa
On our final day in Gondar, we had the opportunity to meet with the president of the University of Gondar, Dr Desalegne Mengesha, pictured below between Kyle and Terry. This meeting was an excellent ending to our Gondar experience. And, although we were sad to leave Gondar, we were excited to experience Addis.
I don’t want to claim that our first few days in Tanzania were tops among GAPers, but I challenge any location in the world to compete with the awe-inspiring Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. Seeing huge horizon-to-horizon herds of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle followed by pools of massive floating families of hippos and, of course, the fierce predators lurking in the bush was an amazing experience. Although, in our case, the predators were either trotting along the dirt road, looking like cuddly creatures, or lounging in the shade of ubiquitous acacias.
In true Fisher networking fashion, we landed a lunch meeting with a local water solutions manager - a tentative third degree connection to our group. Our first business meeting on Tanzanian soil went well, despite the distant network link and unavoidable jet lag. Vincent runs a drilling and construction company in Arusha, a former division of a company focused on bore holes for water wells.
Hello friends, family, and world at large,