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| trekking up to the monastery |
After a day of churches, Sunday morning a couple of us started early with sunrise over St George's church before trekking up to Ashetan Mariam monastery. The monastery is situated at 3,300m so the walk up provided plenty of scenic views over Lalibella and beyond.
There were a number of pilgrims making the walk in either jelly shoes or bare foot, and a number carrying heavy looking loads on their backs. However we did feel superior to the Explore group going up on mules.
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| Ashetan Mariam monastery |
The path took us via some farmland to church where a friendly priest presented a variety of objects from behind his curtain & posed for photos. I think something is a little lost in translation as the church was also devoid of monks.
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| Priest with crosses |
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