A picture of the gang that went on a hippo-quest. The big white guy in a red T-shirt is Mads. The two boys in front to the left are Samuel and Isaac (some friends of us) and above Mads’ shoulder there are three Danish girls taking pictures

















Crossing a field to get to the lake. We live 1900 metres above sea level and the highlands here are very fertile and green.















By one of the lakes we saw this strange bird. We have no clue of what it is.















The best picture we got of a hippo. As mentioned they were rather shy, but this one showed us its face

















The river in which the hippos lived.
















We are all very focused on picking (or, in this case cutting with a Swiss knife) a flower for a Christmas decoration
















Some traditional huts we saw on our way back. The woman who lived in one of them invited us into her hut. It was one room with kitchen, stable and bed, all in one. The chickens lived on a stick above the cows – clever.















As previously mentioned, the cat wakes us up every morning by meowing. Usually it does it outside of our door, but one morning it had got so impatient and desperate (“Why don’t Aske and Maria let me in at half past 6??”) that it tried the window situated 1 meter above the ground. So, it hung there and meowed miserably for a while until we took pity on it and let it in.




















Maria’s is doing her best to make an Adventskrans (Aske also helped).