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Category:Travel and Places
Subcategory:Africa
Subcategory Detail:Ethiopia
Keywords:Africa, Ethiopia, Lalibela, ancient, axum, castles, christainity, churches, faces, gonder, history, landscape, mountains, priests, travel, worship

In the mountains of Lalibela are eleven 12-century churches cut from solid rock; once known as "the second Jerusalem". I spent Xmas morning watching here on a Sunday that had worshippers out at their churches (- although their Orthodox Xmas is celebrated on 7th Jan).