Prosper and Paola

These are some photos I took while hiking with Prosper, in the first photo, who runs a hotel and guides hikes into the area surrounding his hotel to hunt for butterflies. (By the way, the giant insect on his shirt is a walking stick, which when on a plant is indistinguishable from a branch). During the peak season, you can reportedly see up to 500 kinds of butterflies, although when I went it was low season, so I saw more like 20 types. In the second photo is Paola, who went with me on the tour. She's a professional photographer and all-around character who lives in Addis Ababa but was in the middle of a photography expedition in West Africa.