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Tilbage til begyndelsen
Med Axum er vi nået tilbage til Etiopiens første hovedstad. Her finder vi en pedant til Jellingestenene. Der er også ruinerne af hvad nogle mener er Dronningen af Saba's palads. Den arkæologiske viden peger dog nok nærmere mod en rigmands villa. Dronningen af Saba anses som moderen til den etiopiske kongeslægt. Med Kong Salomon fik hun sønnen …
More old stuff, on the road to Axum
Friday we drove back through the awesome scenery of the Gheralta (also where we encountered some of the nicest/friendliest people yet...I'll need to make it back there some day!) to Wukro, and the Wukro Kristos cave church. The entire region of Tigray is covered in cave churches -- estimates are that there are around 150 of them known, and almost …
Action packed tour of Axum
So...I had never heard of Axum before I started doing travel research. This is a little embarrassing because apparently it was one of the one of the most technologically advanced civilizations of it's time (roughly 100-700AD...although this is under debate and likely started earlier) and a huge force in world trade -- it was considered one of the …
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Aksum's Ark
We'd been driving through roadwork sites since starting our tour, and now we finally witnessed the fruits of all this labour. The road from our bush camp to our intended destination of Aksum was brand new and we managed to breeze into town before lunch. Give it another 5 years and my guess is that you could drive the length of Ethiopia in a hatchback (as long as you stick to the main roads). Like everywhere else I'd been to north of Botswana, ...
Long and Winding Road
This part of Ethiopia has the most consistently bad roads that I've encountered on this trip. Asphalt is but a dream and their condition suggests that even a Grader is a rarity. It is also amazingly mountainous, and we began by descending from the plateau that Debark sits on. Here Tom and Daniel (our tour leaders/drivers) revealed Tortuga's party piece: rear jump seats. At the back of the cabin the roof opens and four ...


