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Sudan
Ethiopia 2016
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Gondar
Bahir Dar
Addis Ababa
Lalibela
Gondar
40 miles West of Gondar
Gondar center
Rotal Enclosure
Debre Birhan Selassie Church
Church rear
"Gondar Cross"
Coptic cross in a circle + seven ostrich eggs
Guide with drum
Around Gondar
Fasilada’s Bath (Baptism Pool)
Fasilada’s Bath (Baptism Pool)
Palace of the Dowager Empress Mentewab
Palace of the Dowager Empress Mentewab
Falahsa: Former Jewish village
Bahir Dar
Ethiopian Highlands
Blue Nile, from bridge near Bahir Dar
Blue Nile, from bridge near Bahir Dar
St George Cathedral entrance
Lake Tana
Lake Tana
Ura Kidane Mehret church
Local guide
Very ornate cross (14th c)
9th c (?) copy of the Book of Clement
Local Artist: I bought one of his pictures.
Source of the Blue Nile
Blue Nile exiting Lake Tana
Addis Ababa
Blue Nile bridge
80 miles NW of Addis Ababa
Lion of Judah
Lion of Judah
St George's Church
Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Tombs of Haile Selassie and his wife
Arat Kilo Monument
Commemorates Liberation from the Italian occupation
Derg Monument
National Museum
National Museum of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie giving directions to students
Lucy Skeleton (replica)
Haile Selassie Throne
Ethnological Museum
The ethnological museum is set in a former Imperial Palace
Imperial Bed
Fascist anniversary stairway
Later topped by an Ethiopian Lion!
Lalibela
View from plane
Gabriel-Rafael Church
Gabriel-Rafael Church
Emmanuel Church
Abbas Libanos Church
Biete Medhane Alem
The House of Mary
Biete Golgotha Mikae
St Michael Church
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