Blue Nile

Between our hotel in Bahir Dar and the technical college we visited is a
bridge that leads out of town. This bridge straddles the blue Nile. The
Nile is fed by this river as well as the white Nile, which starts in
neighboring Sudan. I wanted to stop and take some pictures, but the
bridge is heavily guarded by armed guards in fatigues, holding their
rifles in their laps. Apparently this is the only bridge that connects
the town to the rest of the country, so for security reasons they don't
allow pictures. Of course there is another way out of town other than
the road that goes over the bridge, but you would have to drive many
miles out of the way and go back to the capital before you could access
another road that goes north. The guards looked pretty mean, so I
settled for taking some pictures of the blue Nile from the car when we
were in the center of the bridge and the guards couldn't see me.