On the list of nomadic peoples we would like to meet and learn from stands the tall and skinny Afars of the Danakil Depression. Pastoralists in search of grass for their animals, the Afar people also collect salt from mineral deposits—created as water from the Red Sea repeatedly flooded the Depression…

Transparency has become more important to me over time. My point of view is that if people were more open about their struggles we would realise that none of us have it all figured out, that we are just humans with our doubts and fears. So, I will say that…

“As soon as you’ll cross from Sudan into Ethiopia you’ll start to climb”, everybody kept repeating. On our Hungarian topographical map the light beige of Egypt and Sudan gave way to a bright orange for most of Ethiopia, a sure sign that we were about to go up. I don’t…

We could have written a post everyday for the past three weeks while coming to Karthoum, Sudan’s capital, from Aswan in Upper Egypt through the deserts and villages of North Sudan. Our own survival in a sun baked land could have provided ample stories of prickly heat, triclosan powder, nausea,…