摘要 : I barely knew what to expect, but "There's starving kids in Ethiopia" had been a universal admonishment for finishing your broccoli all my life. I've come to like broccoli alright, but would there be starving children begging me f... 展开 I barely knew what to expect, but "There's starving kids in Ethiopia" had been a universal admonishment for finishing your broccoli all my life. I've come to like broccoli alright, but would there be starving children begging me for it in Ethiopia?Flying through the dark of evening, the deserts of South Sudan were just a black expanse beneath us with only the very occasional orange glow of a campfire. As we crossed the invisible borders into Ethiopia, the vague bulk of mountains could be perhaps more imagined than discerned below, and then all at once we cleared one last ridge and the twinkling lights of Addis Ababa spread out before us, sparkling like stars reflected in a pool. By the light of morning, I found I was not in a barren desert but acity high in the mountains - the capital, Addis Ababa is at a higher elevation (2,355m) than the highest point in Australia (Mt Kosciuszko, 2,228m). The parts of Ethiopia I saw in the west and north were mostly mountainous, with rolling green slopes, frequent rain, and wood smoke hanging low over quaint villages of huts in mountain valleys, though I believe there's savanna and desert in the east. 收起