Walking Sticks

Many men carry walking sticks and almost all people from the rural areas carry them. The baskets on the sticks are for injera, the must have spice in Ethiopia.

What can I say to help you understand the way it is here?

June 24th 2009
I love the Bahir Dar area. I love it. But it is so sad because it's citizens deserve more. The city by the lake is a mixed blend of new and old, with condos and huts within the same area of town. Just walking the streets you get a sense of all these time periods colliding into one. There is so much I could write and I have volumes of photo's of the rural areas, the hospitals and Bahir Dar. ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia » Amhara Region » Bahir Dar

Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more

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