jeu, fév 4 2010 | Published in Ethiopia, Out of AFRICA

Ethiopia

By: sbm

Enjoying a macchiato in the Simen Mountains
ETHIOPIA
Day 1 : ADDIS ABEBA
Merkato
Downtown Addis
Lucy in the sky with diamonds…
Day 2 : BAHAR DAR & THE SOURCE OF THE BLUE NILE
Lake Tana
Holy cow !
Blue Nile waterfalls « Tis Issat » or fuming waters
Bunna (coffee) at the source of the Blue Nile
Day 3 : LAKE TANA
Mini taxi
…very mini taxi !
Fekado the Captain of our boat
6 a.m. departure
Selame SBM’s guide
SBM showing the pilot a few maneuvers
On islands in the middle of Lake Tana…
…are hidden monasteries !
Monk of Ura Kidane Mehret
Days 4 & 5 : GONDER
Emperor Fasilidas’s Castle
Debre Birhan Selassie
Queen Menteweb’s Palace
Day 6 : SIMEN NAT’L PARK
Male Walia Ibex
SBM’s scout
Ralph & friends
Nature calls… (N.B. female Walia ibex)
Watch out a lion…
…oh no it’s a Gelada baboon !
Thomas
Kai
Animals can look so human…
…sometimes don’t you think?
Day 7 : ON THE ROAD TO AXUM
Timkat
(a.k.a. Ethiopian Epiphany)
Follow the pink dust road to Axum…
Days 8-9 : AXUM
The King Ezana Stone
The collapsed stele
A 1′000 year-old Bible
Dungur Palace
The door behind which the Ark of the Covenant…
is (rumoured to be) stored !
No comment !
No comment !
Restaurant where SBM…
…saw Obama sworn in as…
…new U.S. President
Days 10-11 : LALIBELA (UNESCO World Heritage site)
Bete Medhane Alem (1 of 11 rock hewn churches)
Where the monks used to sleep…
Bete Maryam
Bete Debre Sina and…
…Golgotha (where only men are allowed)
Priest of Bete Maskal
Priest of Bete Danaghel
Priest of Bete Golgotha
Bete Gyorgis
…carved downwards into the rock !!!
SBM’s favourite : Bete Gyorgis…breathtaking !
…not built from bottom to top !!!
Bete Abba Libanos
Basalt bell (still used today) at Bete Mercurios
Bete Gabriel & Bete Rufael (double church)
6am departure to visit a church which is…
…almost at the top of this mountain (3300m)
SBM’s guide
The church (with protective roof)
Lalibela (as seen from the mountain top)
Selame & SBM
Happy (B4 having to descend the mountain)
Tamiru & SBM

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