Seven Olives Hotel
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Hewn Churches (Wow!)
What a brilliant night's sleep that was. It was not cold and the new pillow really did pay dividends. An early start and a hot shower! Yes a hot shower!
The tour to the hewn churches started early at 7.00am. We picked up our guide (Joseph) and entered the UNESCO site! Wow! Wow! Wow! I spent four hours reminding myself that this complex of …
Gonder to Lalibela
That was a great night's sleep. The best for over a week now! A 6.00am start saw me go to look (in vain as it turned out) for coffee and breakfast. Early morning Gonder was interesting. Again, quite a few people were sleeping in the streets and doorways. Random sheep and dogs walking in the streets. A minibus drove past me with several sheep …
Churches
The drive to Lalibela was great, the bitumen was new and the bends sweeping cambered and sweet. The climb up saw us reach an altitude of 3650mtrs and the Shorty was definitely struggling for breath, the exhaust fumes were thick and black!! The upper world was almost hard to recognise as Africa the people were dressed as you would expect in …
Pilgrims and churches
it's a quite long way from gondar to lalibela but we enjoyed the view and villages along the road on the plateau at 3500/4000 m. loads of pilgrims gather in lalibela on the first days of january for the great feast and churches and monasteries are crowded with priests and people chanting and praying.
Lalibela
... in der Zeit zurück versetzt, wenn man die Popen und die Gläubigen beobachtet, die die Kirchen, Tunnel und Wege bevölkern. Was stört, sind eigentlich nur wir, die Touristen.
Im Gegensatz zu Petra sind einige der Kirchen nicht nur in die Felsen geschlagen worden, sondern sind gänzlich vom Felsen befreit worden, so dass sie in einer Felsgrube stehen und man um sie herumgehen kann.
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