Ethiopia

Easy-Entry Africa 2018

Many African countries require U.S. citizens to obtain a visa prior to traveling even if the purpose of the trip is leisure. While sometimes challenging and almost always annoying, it’s important to point out that the visa process for Americans traveling overseas is still a thousand times simpler and more straightforward than what much of […]

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In Old Axum

In biblical times, the Kingdom of Axum was known as the home of the brilliant, dark, and lovely Queen of Sheba and the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, which held the tablets upon which the Ten Commandments were inscribed. Axum, which also went by the name Ethiopia as early as the

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Ethiopian Epiphany

On the eve of the Ethiopian Orthodox feast day of Timkat, a celebration of the baptism of Baby Jesus and associated with Epiphany, processions of elaborately-dressed clergymen, church mothers, government officials, musicians, scholars, parishioners, and other dignitaries marching through the streets of the capital city, Addis Ababa. Baroque representations of the Ark of the Covenant,

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