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Famous carved wooden effigies of Waga (Wakka) chiefs and warriors, now becoming rare as many have been stolen by art collectors, Konso, southern area, Ethiopia, Africa

Girl holding yellow Meskel flowers in a fertile green wheat field after the rains, The Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa

Portait of local girl carrying a large bundle of wheat and yellow Meskel flowers, Simien Mountains, The Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa

Portait of local girl carrying a large bundle of wheat and yellow Meskel flowers, Simien Mountains, The Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of local girl, Green fertile fields and yellow Meskel flowers in bloom after the rains, Ethiopian Highlands near the Simien mountains and Gonder, Ethiopia, Africa

Ethiopian woman holding a red umbrella in a fertile green field of Eucalyptus trees and blooming yellow Meskel flowers, The Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa

Ethiopian woman holding a red umbrella in a fertile green field of Eucalyptus trees and blooming yellow Meskel flowers, The Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa

The Sunken Rock Hewn church of Bet Giyorgis (St George), Lalibela, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, AfricaThe most famous of Lalibela's Rock Hewn churches, The Sunken Rock Hewn church of Bet Giyorgis, 'St. George', dating from the 12th Century, Lalibela's Rock Hewn Churches rank amoung the greatest religio-historical sites, not only in the African continent but in the Christian World

The Sunken Rock Hewn church of Bet Giyorgis (St George), Lalibela, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, AfricaThe most famous of Lalibela's Rock Hewn churches, The Sunken Rock Hewn church of Bet Giyorgis, 'St. George', dating from the 12th Century, Lalibela's Rock Hewn Churches rank amoung the greatest religio-historical sites, not only in the African continent but in the Christian World

Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World), Lalibela, Ethiopia, AfricaLalibelas rock-hewn churches are arguably Ethiopias top attraction, Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World) is the largest rock-hewn church in the world, religious Hermits inhabit caves to this day, Known as Africas Petra

Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World), Lalibela, Ethiopia, AfricaLalibelas rock-hewn churches are arguably Ethiopias top attraction, Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World) is the largest rock-hewn church in the world, religious Hermits inhabit caves to this day, Known as Africas Petra

Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World), Lalibela, Ethiopia, AfricaLalibelas rock-hewn churches are arguably Ethiopias top attraction, Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World) is the largest rock-hewn church in the world, religious Hermits inhabit caves to this day, Known as Africas Petra

Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World), Lalibela, Ethiopia, AfricaLalibelas rock-hewn churches are arguably Ethiopias top attraction, Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World) is the largest rock-hewn church in the world, religious Hermits inhabit caves to this day, Known as Africas Petra

Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World), Lalibela, Ethiopia, AfricaLalibelas rock-hewn churches are arguably Ethiopias top attraction, Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World) is the largest rock-hewn church in the world, religious Hermits inhabit caves to this day, Known as Africas Petra

Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World), Lalibela, Ethiopia, AfricaLalibelas rock-hewn churches are arguably Ethiopias top attraction, Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World) is the largest rock-hewn church in the world, religious Hermits inhabit caves to this day, Known as Africas Petra

Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World), Lalibela, Ethiopia, AfricaLalibelas rock-hewn churches are arguably Ethiopias top attraction, Bet Medhane Alem (Saviour of the World) is the largest rock-hewn church in the world, religious Hermits inhabit caves to this day, Known as Africas Petra

People walk for days to trade in this famous weekly market, Saturday market in Lalibela, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

People walk for days to trade in this famous weekly market, Saturday market in Lalibela, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a young Hamer woman with goscha (ochre and resin hair tresses), Hamer Tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Hamer woman with goscha (ochre and resin hair tresses), Hamer Tribe, Lower Omo Valley, southern area, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Karo tribesman with facial decoration in chalk imitating the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Karo tribesman with facial decoration in chalk imitating the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Mursi woman with clay lip plate, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portait of a Mursi girl with clay lip plate, and hairstyle that indicates she is going through puberty,The Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Mursi woman with clay lip plate, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Mursi woman with clay lip plate, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Women of the Hamer tribe, their hair treated with ochre, water and resin and twisted into tresses known as goscha, Lower Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Africa

Three Karo tribesmen with face and body decoration in chalk, imitating the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Omo river, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Karo tribesmen with face and body painting imitating the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Omo river, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Children of the Hamer tribe with face and body paint, Lower Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a woman of the Hamer tribe, her hair treated with ochre, water and resin and twisted into tresses known as goscha, Lower Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Mursi woman with clay lip plate, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Mursi woman with clay lip plate, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Mursi woman with clay lip plate, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Mursi woman with clay lip plate, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of three Karo tribesmen with faces and bodies painted with chalk imitating the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Omo river, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Karo tribesman, with face and body painted with chalk to represent the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Omo river, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Karo tribesman with facial decoration imitating the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Omo River, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of local girl, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, Africa

Ethiopian woman holding a red umbrella in a fertile green field of Eucalyptus trees and blooming yellow Meskel flowers, The Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa

People walk for days to trade in this famous weekly market, Saturday market in Lalibela, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

People walk for days to trade in this famous weekly market, Saturday market in Lalibela, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

Portait of a local village boy, Simien Mountains National Park, The Ethiopian Highlands, Ethiopia, Africa

People walk for days to trade in this famous weekly market, Saturday market in Lalibela, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Hamer tribesman with ornate hairstyle of ochre and resin, Hamer Tribe, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Good Friday Coptic Ethiopian Christian procession on the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East

Hamer (Hamar) people walking back from bull jumping ceremony,Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

A group of Hamer women with goscha (ochre and resin hair tresses), Hamer Tribe, Lower Omo Valley, southern area, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of three young women of the Hamer tribe, their hair treated with ochre, water and resin and twisted into tresses known as goscha, Lower Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Africa

People of the Hamer tribe, the woman's hair treated with ochre, water and resin and twisted into tresses known as goscha, Lower Omo Valley, southern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Africa

Mursi tribesmen with face and body decoration, Mursi Hills, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Colourfully dressed schoolgirls at their way home at the Pre-Aksumite settlement of Qohaito (Koloe), Eritrea, Africa

People walk for days to trade in this famous weekly market, Saturday market in Lalibela, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa

Two Hamer (Hamar) girls wearing traditional goat skin dress decorated with cowie shells, Dombo Village, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Face painting with a mixture of clay, oils and plant pigments in preparation for the Hamer (Hamar) jumping of the bulls initiation ceremony, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Portrait of a Hamer (Hamar) child at Evangadi dancing (night dance), Dombo Village, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa

Good Friday Coptic Ethiopian Christian procession on the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East

A man riding a horse with traditional red and yellow Ethiopian headdress and carrying a traditional round shield, Ethiopia, Africa

Good Friday Coptic Ethiopian Christian procession on the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem, Israel, Middle East

Religion, ethiopia. Monk (in pink, abba gebra kidan) staying in the caves near the churches of lalibela

Religion, ethiopia. Na’akuto la’ab church, 7 kms from lalibela, built in a cave. The priest showing some of the church’s treasures

Religion, ethiopia. 17th –19th century murals in new gondar style, inside saint teclaima church axum

Religion, ethiopia. 17th –19th century murals in new gondar style, at the old saint mary of zion church. Axum

Religion, ethiopia. Tullo gudo island and its monastery of debre zion, lake ziway. Murals of orthodox church on the island

Religion, ethiopia. 17th –19th century murals in new gondar style, at the old saint mary of zion church. Axum

Religion, ethiopia. Temple of yeha, c5th bc. Boy and priests showing off manuscripts at the small yeha museum

Religion, ethiopia. Geneta maryam, a church 31 kms from lalibela, built around 1270 by yekuno amlak. Priest at the church holding an ancient cross