Abi Aday
June 28th 2014 We stopped in this town on our way from Axum to Mekele. There were no other tourists there, so we received a lot of attention -- even more than in other parts of Ethiopia.
We arrived in late June, just before a 'whipping holiday,' as one called it, on July 5th. It was disconcerting to walk and run though the streets as children practiced their whip cracking technique, nearly hitting us at times
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