Aksum, Ethiopia

... government was recommending. Oh well we lived to tell another day. We stopped at Yeha on the way home, the site of Ethiopia's first capital build back in the 8th C BC! The remains of one building we amazingly still standing, its stones fitting together ...

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After spending two nights in Gonder, we made our way to Aksum, a town in the far North of Ethiopia, very close to the Eritrean border. In addition to being the purported resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, according to Ethiopians and some others ( ...

Les italiens en avaient ramener un chez eux mais ils ont du le rendre, il s agit des obelisque de la civilisation axumite. Pouvant faire un metre de hauteur et non scultpte, les plus spectaculaire font 24m de hauteur avec des sculpture. Il s agit la un ...

From Gonder it was an 11 hour 'rickety bus' drive across some of the most picturesque mountains in Ethiopia. The road was built by the Italians in the 1930's and it reminded us of the winding roads with hairpin bends and vertigo inducing drops in South ...