Leg 110, Asosa to Semara, Ethiopia
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After nearly 100,000 Nautical Miles, finally wildlife spotted! Only at one site though, the first I went to. The other locations remained empty no matter how much I flew around in circles. I even reloaded the game at the marked location to see if that would help. No matter, the locations were beautiful by themselves. Great are to explore with amazing sights.
Btw, don’t unplug a charging controller while fs2020 is running…
12-10 Asosa HASO 3:01 AM
Lockup, end task, restart. Unplugged (charging) DS4 controller to get sound (Win 10 assigns sound to DS4), game hangs
12-10 Asosa HASO 3:08 AM Blue Nile Giraffes 11°30’26.99"N 37°32’56.06"E
12-10 Bahir Dar HABD 4:42 AM Bahir Dar Stadium
12-10 Azezo HAGN 5:08 AM Fassil Ghebbi 12°36’30.24"N 37°28’12.39"E
12-10 Humera HAHU 5:45 AM
12-10 Shire HAIN 6:32 AM
12-10 Axum HAAX 6:55 AM Church of our Lady Mary of Zion (ancient)
12-10 Setoko HAST 8:02 AM Meshesha Wenz - Giraffes 12°57’45.17"N 38°36’14.91"E Not there
12-10 Setoko HAST 8:42 AM Bugna - Elephants 12°15’33.97"N 39°01’54.86"E Not there
Dawunt - Giraffes 11°27’55.83"N 39°11’53.15"E Not there
Dessie Zuriah - Elephants 10°54’46.6"N 39°28’08.54"E Not there
12-10 Combolcha HADC 9:51 AM
12-10 Semera HASM 10:37 AM Road landing, real sun out, too dark for drone
Flight time 6:49 8 stops
First departing from Asosa
First time I had to reduce the saturation for an image, it was too painful
Approaching Debre Zeyit
Near Debre Zeyit
No name available for this river, Chamoga river on the other side of the hill
And there they are!! Along the Blue Nile near Bahir Dar
They’re not shy, they don’t stop for a picture either. You can’t pause nature.
Exactly where the marker said they would be, walking back and forth
A little bit back to Bahir Dar on lake Tana, starting point of the Blue Nile
Bahir Dar international stadium at the bottom
Martyrs Memorial Monument in memory of those who gave their lives fighting against the Derg dictatorship.
To the other end of the lake where Fassil Ghebbi is in Gondar
Fortress and palace compound, once the seat of Ethiopian emperors
The shape is there, missed the mark on textures
Fasilides’ Bath on the right, emperor of Ethiopia from 1632 to 1667
Near Cafta, the mountains are pretty high here
Climbing to about 10K ft to get over
Approaching Shire further ahead, no name for that settlement in the picture
Moving on to Axum also spelled as Aksum
Aksum, known for its tall, carved obelisks, relics of the ancient Kingdom of Aksum
And the ancient Church of our Lady Mary of Zion
Place where emperors were crowned and said to contain the ark of the covenant
Many ancient things to see here, Queen Sheba’s palace on the left
The Ezana Stone on the right, documenting the conversion of King Ezana to Christianity and his conquest of various neighboring areas between 330 and 356 AD
So much history in Aksum, Queen Sheba’s bath, the obelisk of Axum from the 4th century, the tomb of king Bazen and multiple other ancient palace sites.
Flying on to Sekoto
Abiy Addi along the way
Takeze river, dam down below on the right
Tekezé Dam and power station on the left
Taking a peek at the construction of the power station
Mount Ras Deshen in the distance, 14,900 ft high
8,000 ft is about ground level here at airstrips
Following the Takeze river to the South
Meshasha Wenz, more giraffes are supposed to be here
Approaching Sekoto
Bugna, flying back and forth looking for the missing elephants
They’re probably hiding in that tent…
None here either, pretty area
Near Girara, a single cloud
Crossing over the Bashilo river
Dawunt, where are the giraffes hiding
Oh well, flying on to Kombolcha
Imagine marching armies through here in ancient times
No elephants at Dessie Zuria either, Combolcha
On the far right is a camp from Yapi Merkezi, busy constructing a 1224 km railway line connecting Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania to the Indian Ocean. There’s no sign of it yet on Bing, on Google you can see the construction up to just North of the airport.
Hardibo lake North of Kombolcha
Mile Serdo wildlife reserve
It’s dark again, very dark. My final stop, Semera, had no runway lights of course. No matter how well I lined up with the drone the runway remained invisible. The real sun drowned out the weak shine from the landing light. I resorted to landing on one of the well lit roads next to the airport. Tricky landing since the road was not flat, but it worked. Or rather I landed on the nice clear strip next to the road, rush hour in Semera.