October 8th, 2015
Lalibela, Ethiopia
Hi,
During my after army trip to South – America, I learned a bit Spanish.
I thought another language is a good skill to have.
The problem is that ain’t so good in learning languages and that It took me too long to get enough Spanish to handle in those countries.
So I did what of my friends did – we used Spanglish =)
But that doesn’t work over here, in Ethiopia. They don’t English nor they talk Spanish. They talk Amharic, which is a Semitic languages. Yes, just like Hebrew. So Atzva and I started to talk Heb-mharic =D
It took me time – each time I didn’t know a word in Amharic (and I don’t know a lot of those) – a Spanish word jump out of my mouth.
I had to get used to use Hebrew. I haven’t had much chances to do it: I have visited to Egypt and to Jordan, but in both cases I didn’t use Hebrew at all. I didn’t tried too much of my Arabic either, It was better not to let people know I am from Israel. But here I can do it – and you know what? it is pretty fun 
The pictures are of the hike we did to Asheten Mariam Monastery above Lalibela =)
Take Care
Gad
The summit of the mountain above Lalibela – where Asheten Mariam Monastery stands
The plateau on the way up
A small spring on the road to Asheten Mariam
Can you see Asheten Mariam Monastery?
Me neither =P
Well hidden
Look close, you can see a crack and a blue door in the cliff.
A house in the cliff below the Monastery
Climbing up the tunnel to the Monastery
Asheten Mariam Monastery
Asheten Mariam Monastery from inner court
The door at entrance to the yard of the Monastery
This is the outer wall of the yard of the Monastery. Look how soft is the Scoria.
Asheten Mariam Monastery from inside
Asheten Mariam Monastery from above, and the summit of Basalt
The roof protecting the church are less impressive than the roofs down in Lalibela.
Hexagon of Basalt – I finally understand why they were some many of those hanged in the Churches – The play on it with a small stone =)
The view!
Yep, that’s the view from above the Monastery.
Going down the tunnel out of the Monastery
The view from the end of tunnel going down from the Monastery.
A souvenir stand on the way and the view from the road down
The road down to the parking (for the softer) and to Lalibela (for us =)
This is really Little house on the Prairie =P
Going down
We did walk a a bit today =D
Don’t jump!
Kita (a traditional Ethiopian pancake) with Berbere (crushed peppers paste) served as first dish for dinner (we went to an expensive restaurant today =)
Tibs and french fries as main dish
The Tibs was a big success – everyone else in the restaurant (8 people) ordered it once we got ours =) The french fries were because Atza really wanted something else than Injera, pasta or rice – it was a good dish =D
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