 The start of the drive to the Simien Mountains, 3 hours to the north |
 A horse-drawn cart headed to Gondar |
 Wolleka, 6km north of Gondar |
 Felasha village was once home to some of the remaining Ethiopian jews |
 In the late 1980's most of the Felasha emigrated to Israel |
 Crafts market in the Felasha village |
 Felasha Village, near Gondar |
 Terraced fields along the road north of Gondar |
 Agricultural landscape north of Gondar |
 Agricultural landscape north of Gondar |
 The Ethiopian highlands are not a desert |
 Hill covered with farms |
 Viewpoint looking down on the lowlands to the west |
 View to the west |
 Viewpoint in the Ethiopian highlands |
 Rocky pinnacle north of Gondar |
 Ethiopian man with cattle |
 Viewpoint |
 The Landcruiser for the drive to the Simien Mountains and later to Axum |
 Rural Ethiopian post office |
 Farmer threshing grain with a team of 3 horses |
 Too bad the visibility wasn't a bit better |
 Ethiopian bus |
 Highlands Scenery |
 Prickly bush |
 Amba Giyorgis, Ethiopia |
 Amba Giyorgis, Ethiopia |
 Amba Giyorgis, Ethiopia |
 Amba Giyorgis, Ethiopia |
 Amba Giyorgis, Ethiopia |
 Amba Giyorgis, Ethiopia |
 Amba Giyorgis, Ethiopia |
 Drying peri peri chiles in the sun |
 Bulls are also used to thresh grain |
 Rotel truck from Germany headed to Gondar |
 Open farmland, Ethiopian highlands |
 Small village on the side of the road |
 Another farmer threshing grain with livestock |
 Thatched Ethiopian rondavels |
 Threshing tef, the Ethiopian staple from which injera bread is made |
 Boy running up to the car with a sample of tef |
 Our driver showing us tef |
 The individual tef grains are tiny |
 Fields of grain, Ethiopian highlands |
 Highway 3, now a dirt road, passing through a village |
 Tree covered knoll with what looks like old fortifications |
 Gedebgie, a village between Gondar and Debark |
 Also spelled Godibedjei, Ethiopia |
 Landscape south of Dabat |
 Highway 3 passing entering Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Mosque of Dabat |
 Mosque of Dabat |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Dabat |
 Dabat, Ethiopia |
 East African looking tree, Ethiopian highlands |
 Along the road from Dabat to Debark |
 Prominent tree covered rocky peak |
 Old Ethiopian woman, near Dabat |
 Along the road from Dabat to Debark |
 One of the last villages before reaching Debark |
 I wonder if this area was all forested at one time.... |