Tississat Falls ("Water and Smoke" in Amharic), also known as the Blue Nile Falls
Inside one of the 29 Lake Tana's island monasteries, dating from the 11th to 16th centuries (photo on the right)
On the road to Gondar
Gondar
Aksum (or Axum)
King Ezana's Stele is the tallest of hundreds of obelisks in Axum, standing 21 meter tall
In the foreground, the fallen 33-meter Great Stele
Human heads inside the museum Handicraft outside the museum
Lalibela
Most of Lalibela's 11 rock-hewn churches were hewn straight from the bedrock, so their roofs are at ground level
This church was built inside a cave
Addis Ababa
Paintings at the Ethnological Museum, in the grounds of Addis Ababa University
Imperial Throne at the National Museum (photo on the right)
Cro-Magnon 3.2 million-year old skull (on the left). Australopithecus afarensis, the famous “Lucy” (on the right)
is the oldest and most complete fossil skeleton of an erect-walking human ancestor.
Photos of tribal girls at the National Museum
The modern international airport in Addis Ababa (on the right)