My brother Maurits and my sister-n-law Cobie visited us in november. Their purpose was threefold:
1. to see us, and get and idea of our life in Ethiopia,
2. to experience Ethiopia and its cultural heritage, so they toured the North, visiting the monasteries in lake Tana, gondar, Axum, the Simien mountains, and Lalibela. Together we visiited Harar, an age-old walled Muslim-city in the Est of the country
3. to pay a visit to the project that the Rotaries of Maurits/ Vogelenzang and Robert/ Addis Abeba may jointly sponsor. it is a project in which schools can provide their own food to the schoolchildren, by establishing a bakery and vegetable gardens.
View of the Blue Nile valley: note the terraces in the hill side!
The pelicans in lake Tana
the traditional reed boats, that were also used in lake titicaca in Peru!
One of the women coming to the orthodox church, in traditional cotton clothes
1. to see us, and get and idea of our life in Ethiopia,
2. to experience Ethiopia and its cultural heritage, so they toured the North, visiting the monasteries in lake Tana, gondar, Axum, the Simien mountains, and Lalibela. Together we visiited Harar, an age-old walled Muslim-city in the Est of the country
3. to pay a visit to the project that the Rotaries of Maurits/ Vogelenzang and Robert/ Addis Abeba may jointly sponsor. it is a project in which schools can provide their own food to the schoolchildren, by establishing a bakery and vegetable gardens.
One of the women coming to the orthodox church, in traditional cotton clothes
