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Aksum
Aksum, Ethiopia
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Adventures in Flight II
This is a top pick! Pretty similar to the last airport, but with a few more interesting tidbits. Grant gave an American Dollar as a tip to someone who helped with our bags (you have to work very hard NOT to get help whether you want it or not) so as not to ...
Fleeced in Aksum
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
An Archaeologist's Dream - Axum
This is a top pick! ... , so we could not read them. Next door was Queen Mary's church was a re-make of one of the largest in Ethiopia - fitting over 3000 people at once! The acoustics were incredible in here, and true to form, the walls were covered with ...
Keepers of the Lost Ark?
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 ...
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St Mary of Zion
Aksum, Ethiopia
This church is rumored to be the hiding place of the biblical "Lost Ark."
The Ruins of Aksum
Aksum, Ethiopia
The remains of once powerful royal capital contain impressive tombs and stelae.
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