A 4x4 with a local driver may be a better bet.
In Bishkek I hired a car and local driver, and together we made our way eastward.
But the easiest — and most informative — is renting a taxi with a local driver at the wheel.
Somehow, he crosses Ethiopia with a local driver who knows only two English expressions: 'Problem' and 'No problem'.
One local driver told Gibbs she was as excited to meet him as she was to meet Obama.
When the first burly local driver arrives with his rig and brakes, he appears a bit distressed.
Schumacher had damaged his nose cone as the local driver defended his position when the champion tried to overtake.
But Mark Webber the local driver in the other Red Bull, was less than half a second behind Hamilton, making it a three-way battle.
"The local driver is trying to go to the gas station or the supermarket, and on the same road you have people driving 30, 40, 50 miles.
A driver from out of town had a 10percentt higher probability of getting a ticket than a local driver, holding speed and other characteristics constant.
(We were inevitably pushed back in these flights, sometimes for several miles, only to creep back again, with a local driver we had hired Sunday morning, who was cautiously game).
