Agordat Eritrea - September 13th 2002
Agordat can be extremely hot, because of its altitude of only 600 meters. It lies between the Barka and Gash rivers in an area with a more than average malaria risk. We are lucky. Today it is relatively cool, which means approximately 30 degrees. Some very old trucks loaded with merchandise join the few buses at the bus station.
We eat injera in one of the restaurants and drink some orange juice. When I point the camera to one of the girls serving the guests, she hides in the kitchen. She is not annoyed, just shy. Most of them are, which makes it difficult to record their colorful clothes and beautiful traditional hair dressing.
We walk through the village and follow the river bed for a few hundred meters, where some local people are busy with their daily activities or resting in the shade of the trees.
Every once and a while we pass groups of children, reacting exited to the video camera, doing their best to attract my attention. The want me to picture them.
At 17:00 we take the bus back to Keren. When we are back in Keren, two and a half hours later it is completely dark. We have diner in Restaurant Stuttgart. The owner returned from Germany five years ago and is now making a living managing this restaurant. We have a large dish with spaghetti, and talk to Rahel, the owners daughter how she finds it after returning from Stuttgart. "It is very different. In Stuttgart we had a good life without much fun. Here in Keren we have a lot of fun, but little money".
Typical houses on the road from Keren to Agordat.
The landscape around Agordat.
Little hamlet or "Adi" on the foot of a hill near Agordat.
Nara people waiting for the bus at Agordat bus station.
Walking through the village of Agordat, close to the Barka river.
The "shida" - plastic sandal, symbol of the (30 years) struggle for liberation.
Walking through the village of Agordat.
Traditional dressed girl in Agordat.
The Barka river passing the village of Agordat.
The famous mosque of Agordat - second largest of Eritrea.
