Photos from our trip to Ethiopia, November 2007

Most of the photographs we had seen before going to Ethiopia were news coverage of the famines in the 1980's, illustrations by aid organisations of the work that they are doing, or in tourist guides.

Ours are more like 'snapshots' of rural Ethiopia going about its day-to-day business, to give an impression of what it looked like to us.

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Travels with SUNARMA

We spent 10 days with SUNARMA as they reviewed their projects and met with local government officials, covering many miles by road.

The journey included parts of three federal regions (Amhara, Afar and Oromia) north and east of Addis Ababa

Trekking near Lalibela

We then went to Lalibela and did a four-day trek along the escarpments and through the fields with TESFA, a community based tourism organisation.

The slower pace along the paths and tracks that form the rural communications network gave the opportunity to see more of the activities in the countryside of the highlands.

SUNARMA and TESFA are working together to introduce community based tourism in the Wof-Washa Forest where we had been with SUNARMA

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