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         		 Young mother go to the lesson with her baby.: by juditkocsis, Views[195]
         		 Girls are preparing homework for the next class.: by juditkocsis, Views[203]
         		 Mathematics lesson in Hamusit Primary School Cluster Resource Center.: by juditkocsis, Views[258]
     
    Education in primary school. A young boy learns to write. - in Hamusit Primary School Cluster Resource Center(grade 1 to 8 fully primary cycle).: by juditkocsis, Views[238]
         		 We met with her on the road. He carried the shawl on his head wrapped in a sack. Didn't understand English, but as soon as she realised, that we try to communicate something in connection with the sack, took it down from his head promptly and showed,how it is necessary to hang it correctly.: by juditkocsis, Views[201]
         		 Although too young to take part in the festivities and whipping, young girls tie up their tops mimicking their elder sisters and mothers.: by kym, Views[585]
         		 Showing the scars of their whipping are relatives of the boy. The scars are to show their devotion to the boy about to be a man. They know that as a man he will be there to help whenever they are in trouble as they have taken pain for him. : by kym, Views[701]
         		 The Maza, men who have already come of age, wait in the shade holding switch sticks. Women of the tribe will approach and goad the Maza into whipping them.: by kym, Views[425]
     
    The mother of the boy takes a moment of quiet between the celebrations.: by kym, Views[231]
         		 A Hamer boy, about to come of age, takes advice from his older cousin.: by kym, Views[325]
         		 Serenity and fulfilment consummate one's spiritual journey. For the pilgrims transfixed in prayer, the experience has been a voyage both into the depths of the earth as well as the depths of their own faith.: by leylandcecco, Views[1088]
         		 Resting against the rock face of the church, an Orthodox Christian is caught in a moment of contemplation. Each of the underground churches contain a thick and richly coloured curtain hiding a replica of the Ark of the Covenant, viewable only by priests, deacons and bishops. : by leylandcecco, Views[526]
         		 Narrow tunnels underneath the churches and within the mountain connect the churches, and as the number of pilgrims swell dramatically with Christmas approaching, the passages become an increasingly tight traverse. Stories of long treks echo off the cool stone, with one pilgrim telling me of his group's barefoot journey of more than 8 days in order to reach Lalibela. As so many villages are within reach, more than 60,000 pilgrims descend on the churches each Christmas.: by leylandcecco, Views[568]
     
    In the 1500s, King Lalibela had 11 churches hewn from a 'mother rock' in order to create a holy place below ground safe for pilgrims to worship and evade detection. The result was so captivating that the first European to enter the site wrote
         		 Perched high in the mountains of Northern Ethiopia, the small town of Lalibela is a place of pilgrimage during the time of Orthodox Christmas, and Ethiopian Christianity's second holiest site. Wrapped in shrouds of early morning mist and cotton, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians stand in prayer at the edge of Bet Giyorgis, the rock church carved to resemble a cross.: by leylandcecco, Views[1467]
         		 Children playing up high in the mountains, while the cattle is grazing.: by alstart12, Views[314]
         		 Girl bringing fire-wood home at sunset. : by alstart12, Views[272]
         		 Girls working all day around the cattle in the Simien Mountains. : by alstart12, Views[260]
     
    Children entertaining 'faranji' - white people randomly driving by.: by alstart12, Views[315]
         		 Boy belonging to Hamer tribe in Southern Ethiopia. : by alstart12, Views[599]
         		 An old woman just relaxing: by theosym, Views[211]
         		 Two little girls just talking,I loved the expression of the bigger one: by theosym, Views[284]
         		 The most shinny eyers I've ever seen and the most beautiful smile: by theosym, Views[194]
     
    An old woman is sitting in the hut...the atmosphere was unique.: by theosym, Views[338]
         		 Two women are walking a long distance just to find water. : by theosym, Views[250]
         		 Suri Woman with Traditional Lip Plate. Kibish, Southern Ethiopia: by suri, Views[7262]
         		 Local Suri 'Cowboy' drinking cow blood. Kibish, Southern Ethiopia: by suri, Views[3618]
         		 Suri woman undergoing scarification ritual. Kibish, Southern Ethiopia: by suri, Views[4084]
     
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