030 - Africa - Lalibela 09/15/08 - 09/20/08 Historic Ethiopia Imagine walking along rural Ethiopia a few centuries ago, flanked by green fields and farmlands, mountains in the distance, small stones digging in to your bare feet. You stop and have a vision of a church that doesn't exist. A church built out of rock. Not only that, but built out of one piece of rock, and built from the top down, by removing the earth, not adding to it. And not just one church, but a community of churches, each one carved out of rock, and each one unparalleled in it's architectural and structural attributes. Where Cambodia has Angkor Wat, India the Taj, and Egypt the pyramids, Ethiopia has Lalibela: home of the largest rock-hewn churches in the world. After much thought and deliberation, Lakis
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