Aksum, Ethiopia

Travel Blogs from Aksum (13)

Fleeced in Aksum, Aksum, Ethiopia travel blog
Fleeced in Aksum
Jan 8, 2006

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by jonclark2000
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Keepers of the Lost Ark?, Aksum, Ethiopia travel blog
Keepers of the Lost Ark?
Mar 30, 2009

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 ( ...

A travel blog entry by donna321
Obelisque, Axum, Ethiopia travel blog
Obelisque
Oct 8, 2009

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 ...

A travel blog entry by vmarchal
Aksum, Aksum, Ethiopia travel blog
Aksum
May 9, 2006

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 ...

A travel blog entry by trish_and_kevin

Attractions in Aksum (2)

St Mary of Zion
St Mary of Zion

Aksum, Ethiopia

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This church is rumored to be the hiding place of the biblical "Lost Ark."
The Ruins of Aksum
The Ruins of Aksum

Aksum, Ethiopia

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The remains of once powerful royal capital contain impressive tombs and stelae.

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