ETHIOPIA (5): Axum

[Xander202]

Originally Posted by ChiTownCity

So where exactly do all of those people live? It looks like there's a lot of people but barely any buildings... just a lot of desert landscape.

There is town.... I didn't take many pictures of buildings as they were fairly unremarkable, typical poor country concrete boxes. There are also a few streets with fairly colourful houses, think there are a few pictures amongst this thread.

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Yea, these Ethiopian threads are something.

Originally Posted by Xander202

Nice looking kids. Let him grow up then the one to the left will make some girls die from his bad almond eyes. At least, I know that's the way it'd be where I am, cause sex desires are even stronger than racism over here.
Hey, what? That's just life, definitely for the better after all.

Originally Posted by Xander202

I would steal the sort of dark grey-blue suit of the guy standing in the middle of the pic.

Originally Posted by Xander202

This appears to be a Peugeot. Rare nowadays, collectible.

Originally Posted by Xander202

There is town.... I didn't take many pictures of buildings as they were fairly unremarkable, typical poor country concrete boxes.

I won't go too far in the off-topic but surprisingly, today some concrete looks almost, if not really neat. But then it might requires some kind of (probably a little costly) custom-made treatments to look interesting. Like this:



That's nothing cheaper than concrete. Though I doubt it's been really cheap to get this result, they needed a couple of sculptors working for some business specializing in that kind of materials.

Since neighboring Kenya's being in the bad news right now, they should imitate it somehow. It'd be good to see them finally a little developing.

[Xander202]

Originally Posted by Mike K.

Xander, excellent photos!

Did you have a chance to visit the churches dug into the ground?

Yes, they are in a different place called Lalibela, the thread can be viewed here

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this is gold.