Festival Day

Most folks are christian here but 30 percent are Muslim, so we were awakened at 5am with wailing from the mosques.
Today is the festival of the Virgin so streets were thronged with white robed women and men in their best clothes. Also went to the national museum and learned about Ethiopian Emperor Haille Salassie,a descendent of Israel's King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. He was also connected strangely enough with Jamaica's rastafarians. Lots of interesting info about tribes in the Afar and Harar regions.
We learned that besides a different calendar, they keep time differently so what is 10 am to us is 4 pm to them. Confused? Just roll with it.
Tomorrow we fly to Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile. It sounds like there may be wifi lapses there, so if you don't hear from us for a few days, we've been forcibly unplugged!Læs mere