Ethiopia – The Northern Historical Route: A Selection Of 51 Pictures

Bet Abba Libanos Rock-Hewn Church, Northern Cluster

Ethiopia is a stunning country that offers the largest Cultural Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa, built over centuries by some of the oldest Jewish, Christian (Orthodox) and Muslim communities on earth, and by Empires which influence spread much further than African boundaries…

The Northern Historical Route (Bahir Dar, Gonder, Lalibela, Aksum, Tigray), in the highlands of Ethiopia, but also Harar in the East, take the visitors through the grandeurs of Ethiopian Christian Orthodox culture, with stunning Rock-Hewn Churches and Monasteries, but also through the vestiges of the various Ethiopian Empires, starting with the legendary Queen of Sheba and ending in the 20^th Century.

 

 

Arthur Rimbaud’s House, Harar

 

One of Harar’s 82 Mosques

 

At the Market in Harar

 

Dire Dawa’s Market

 

At the Market in Harar

 

Dire Dawa’s Market, East Ethiopia

 

Dire Dawa’s Market

 

Hyenas Feeding, Harar

 

Hyenas Feeding, Harar

 

King Ezana’s Stele, Main Stelae Field, Aksum

 

Rome Stele or Aksum Obelisk, Main Stelae Field, Aksum

 

The Great Stele, Main Stelae Field, Aksum

 

Chapel of the Ark Of Covenant, Aksum

 

Religious Wall Paintings, St. Mary of Zion, Aksum

 

Religious Wall Paintings, St. Mary of Zion, Aksum

 

Dongar, Queen of Sheba’s Palace, Aksum

 

The Tombs of King Gebre Meskel, Aksum

 

Ethiopian Road

 

Simien Mountains National Park

 

Simien Mountains National Park

 

Simien Mountains National Park

 

Bearded Vulture, Simien Mountains National Park

 

Rüppell’s Vulture, Simien Mountains National Park

 

Gelada Monkey or Gelada Baboon, Simien Mountains National Park

 

Gelada Monkey or Gelada Baboon, Simien Mountains National Park

 

Fasilida’s Casstle, Fasil Ghebbi, the Royal Enclosure, Gonder

 

Fasilida’s Casstle, Fasil Ghebbi, the Royal Enclosure, Gonder

 

Religious Student’s Village near Debre Berhan Selassie Church, Gonder

 

Lake Tana, Bahir Dar from a Plane

 

The Source of the Blue Nile at Lake Tana, Bahir Dar

 

Bet Maryam Monastery, Lake Tana, Bahir Dar

 

Ura Kidane Mihret Monastery, Lake Tana, Bahir Dar

 

Religious Wall Paintings, Azewa Mariam Monastery, Lake Tana

 

Religious Wall Paintings, Betremariam Monastery, Lake Tana, Bahir Dar

 

Religious Wall Paintings, Azewa Mariam Monastery, Lake Tana

 

Religious Wall Paintings, Betremariam Monastery, Lake Tana, Bahir Dar

 

17th Century Portuguese Bridge, near the Blue Nile Falls

 

Bet Giyorgis Rock-Hewn Church, Lalibela

 

Bet Giyorgis Rock-Hewn Church, Lalibela

 

Bet Giyorgis Rock-Hewn Church, Lalibela

 

Old Priest near Bet Medhane Alem Rock-Hewn Church, Southern Cluster, Lalibela

 

Bet Medhane Alem Rock-Hewn Church, Southern Cluster, Lalibela

 

Priest at Bet Abba Libanos Rock-Hewn Church, Northern Cluster, Lalibela

 

Market in Lalibela

 

Children Posing for the Picture, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

 

Surroundings of Lalibela at Sunrise

 

Old Woman near Bilbilla Chirkos, Around Lalibela

 

Abraha We Atsbeha, Wukro Cluster, Rock-Hewn Church of Tigray

 

Religious Wall Paintings at Wukro Cherkos, Rock-Hewn Church of Tigray

 

Priest at Abuna Yemata Guh, Rock-Hewn Church of Tigray