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We climbed to the top of the flat peak in the middle of the photo.
Changes for Better and Worse
July 21st 2013 Africa whispers to me from afar, beckoning me to return when I have been absent too long. It has been three years since my wanderings on that grand continent and those whispers were growing in intensity. Thus, in order to silence them, I embarked on my fourth visit to Ethiopia.
My previous tours of Ethiopia were in 2008 and 2010. Not much was different between those times, but the three years s
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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 COMING SOON HOUSE ADVERTISING ads_leader_photo_bottom