Ethiopia (April-May 2012): Mekele-to-Lalibela-to-Debark
trek (page 3 of 8)
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Map. (Click here to access the waypoints in Google Earth. Click
on the map to get a better-resolution picture of it.)
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Between WP #6 (Sara) and
WP #7.
A river with vegetable
fields. Vegetables were very rare along the entire trek.
More landscapes between
WP #6 and WP #7.
Village of Chakra on the
edge of a cliff (WP #7).
Educative drawings in
the school of Chakra.
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Scenery soon after
leaving Chakra.
Woman and her child.
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Fields and terraces
between WP #7 and WP #8.
Girls in the village
of Samara (WP #8).
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Young boys.
Woman and child.
Mulat keeping Samara′s
children under control by entertaining them with stories and quizzes.
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Values posted and
taught in most schools across Ethiopia.
Sign in front of the
police station in Samara.
In a teahouse in a
village between WP #8 and WP #9.
Women and girls
between WP #8 and WP #9.
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Landscapes between WP
#8 and WP #9.
Rest stop below an
acacia.
Group photo at WP #9.
View from WP #9.
View of the town of Sekota (WP #10), with the mosque at the center of the photo
and the main church on the far right (round conic roof). Sekota
and (later) Lalibela are the largest towns we
traversed during the entire trek.
Street of Sekota.
Big fig tree at the
center of Sekota.
Fashion shop.
In a butcher shop.
Note the dressed-up cashier with suit and tie. Using two curved knives, the butcher
cuts meat into small pieces used to make tibs-injera
dishes.
A surprisingly modern
coffee shop in Sekota, with TV, expresso machine, a
choice of alcohol, and the setting for the traditional coffee ceremony below
the TV.
In a traditional tej (honey wine)
house in Sekota. Honey wine (also called mead) is one
of the humanity′s oldest alcohol drink, dating as far back as 3000BC.
Greeks and Romans called it the drink of the gods.
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circular vases with long necks, they had drunk a kind of unctuous mead,
harmless in appearance, but that pleasantly blurred one′s thoughts.″
(From L′Abyssin, a novel by
Jean-Christophe Rufin.)
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