Ayder: Ekodanitap, Schmekodanitap

We walked in the tea-plantation hills above Ekodanitap for 4 hours in the morning. The road is surprisingly well paved for such a remote area. We saw two tea gathering stations.

Midway through our walk, a caravan of SUVs passed by, with stickers reading "Medraft" on the doors. Later, when one of the SUVs broke down, we talked to them. They were adventure tourists from Israel, startlingly incongruous in this setting. Not that we fit in any better. So, like tropical birds meeting in a pine forest, we flapped our garish wings and flew off in opposite directions.