Rock-Hewn Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia in HD
The ancient rock-hewn churches of Tigray were built between 4th and 15th century, there are more than 100 of them. They offer amazing atmospheric ambience and views over spectacular landscapes. In this video visit to 6 of the most appealing churches in Tigray - interesting either historically, architecturally or because they offer the most spectacular views over the surrounding landscapes. We hiked to 3 of the Gheralta cluster churches: Maryam and Daniel Korkor, Abuna Yemata Guh; visited Mikael Imba (Atsbi cluster), Medhane Alem Adi Kasho and Petros and Paulos (Teka Tesfai cluster), and Abreha We Atsbeha (Wukro cluster).
Recorded February 2014 in HD with Panasonic TM900.
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Ethiopia’s Chapel in the Sky
If churches were assessed by their risk factor, Abuna Yemata Guh would be our new Sistine Chapel. Perched 650 feet above a steep cliff in Northern Ethiopia, visitors face a 45-minute climb up the cliff’s vertical face in order to access the precariously positioned church. Dating back to the 5th century, history has it that its founder Father Yemata built the chapel to be closer to heavenly spirits; however, others claim it was a strategic move to avoid his enemies.
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ETHIOPIA - GHERALTA
Near Mekele, there are the Gheralta Rock mountains. After a short walk, a point is reached, where you have to take off your shoes and climb a steep rock to reach Abuna Yemata, a fifth-century church carved by an Egyptian monk.
In the Mountains of Tigray - Rock Hewn Churches of Ethiopia
Tigray Churches are famous for their picturesque location, beautiful history and somewhat difficulty to reach. Whilst some of them are an off-road drive and a 5 minute walk up the stone stairs, others require walking for hours, climbing vertical rock shelves, and an ability to let go of your fear of heights!! We opted for trekking and climbing - we captured it in film and in our Tigray Churches story.
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Is this the most extreme baptism? BBC Stories
This is the most extreme baptism you’ll ever see. In Ethiopia, belief in a higher power leads villagers in the Tigray region to climb a huge, vertiginous mountainside to reach their church. They believe it's vital and beneficial for their children to be baptised here, despite the obvious dangers. Just 40 days after giving birth, Ngisti must climb 400 metres to have her new son Dawit baptised.
Churches of Tigray I Episode #8 I Backpacking Africa Travel Vlog HandZaround
With our harnesses on, we made the treacherous climb up to one of the Churches of Tigray.
In the Gheralta Mountains of Northern Ethiopia, you can find some of the most inaccessible churches in the world. Abuna Yemata is literally carved into the side of 300m high free standing rock, and requires visitors to take few risk in order just to get to the front door.
Get ready for some seriously impressive views!
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Abune Yemata Guh, Ethiopia | While in Africa
A 6th Century rock-hewn church on top of the Gheralta mountains, in Northern Ethiopia. This is the most famous church in the area with all the paintings being original from the time of establishment.
To visit this site, you have to hike for about an hour climbing through sheer rock walls and passing through edges. Definitely not for the faint-hearted!
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Climbing Abuna Yemata Guh In Ethiopia
The hair raising climb to the Abuna Yemata Guh Monastery in Northern Ethiopia. Pilgrims take this dangerous climb up a 90 degree cliff face to show there devotion to there religion.
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Rock Hewn Churches of , Ethiopia
The ancient rock-hewn churches of Tigray were built between 4th and 15th century, there are more than 100 of them. They offer amazing atmospheric ambience and views over spectacular landscapes. In this video visit to 6 of the most appealing churches in Tigray - interesting either historically, architecturally or because they offer the most spectacular views over the surrounding landscapes. We hiked to 3 of the Gheralta cluster churches: Maryam and Daniel Korkor, Abuna Yemata Guh; visited Mikael Imba (Atsbi cluster), Medhane Alem Adi Kasho and Petros and Paulos (Teka Tesfai cluster), and Abreha We Atsbeha (Wukro cluster).
#Danakil Depression #Ethiopia Rock Formations at #Dallol
The Danakil Depression is the hottest, harshest, and one of the lowest and most inhospitable places on earth. Due to geological upheavals at this location in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia called the Afar Triangle, there are unusual rock formations, including areas with various gasses (potassium, iron, sulfur) with steam vents that form multi-colored rock formations that look like coral reefs, but above the water
Ethiopian couple built their own Rock-Cut house in Hawzen, Tigray
Ethiopian couple built their own Rock-Cut house in Hawzen, Tigray
Ethiopia: The North (pt. 1) Erta Ale Volcano, Mekelle, Addis Abbaba Sept./Oct. 2017
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El verdadero peligro en Etiopía - Ethiopia's real danger!
You might think that you could be kidnapped in the Danakil Depression by a terrorist group, or that you can break your neck climbing Abuna Yemata church or Debre Damo Monastery. Perhaps you might fear the 50ºC of Dallol, the crazy baboons of the Simien Mountains or the Diarrhoea that is awaiting you after drinking the local honey wine. But you will be wrong. The real danger of this beautiful country is not in the list indicated above!! Check on this video for more details.
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Quizás pensabas que lo más peligroso de Etiopía son los secuestros en la Depresión de Danakil, o bien romperte la crisma subiendo a Debre Damo con una cuerda de piel de cabra, o la espalda escalando Abuna Yemata, que te coman los monos salvajes de las Montañas Simien, o quizás la diarrea que te espera después de probar el vino dulce local. Pues te equivocas completamente!!! Los verdaderos peligros de Etiopía se describen en este vídeo.
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Gheralta Mountains (Mesa)
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Meskel Festival I Episode #9 I Backpacking Africa Travel Vlog HandZaround
The Meskel Festival is celebrated every year across Ethiopia on the 26th or 27th of September. Of all the celebration, the one that happens at Meskel Square, in Addis Ababa, is by far the largest. Thousands of people come together in an amazing spectacle to commemorate the finding of the True Cross in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
We were lucky enough to get some tourist passes that allowed us to get right in the middle of the celebration and experience everything up close and personal.
Many thanks to ETT ( ) for organising the passes for us. As usual, all the opinions in this vlog are our own.
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The dangers of Debre Damo monastery (Ethiopia)
Debre Damo is the name of a flat-topped mountain, or amba, and a 6th century monastery in northern Ethiopia. The mountain is steeply rising plateau of trapezoidal shape, about 1000 by 400 meters in dimension, having an elevation of 2216 meters above sea level, and located west of Adigrat in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the Tigray Region. The monastery, accessible only by rope up a sheer cliff, is known for its collection of manuscripts, and having the earliest existing church building in Ethiopia still in its original style. Tradition claims the monastery was founded in the sixth century by Abuna Aregawi.
The monastery received its first archeological examination by E. Littman who led a German expedition to northern Ethiopia in the early 20th century. By the time David Buxton saw the ancient church in the mid-1940s, he found it on the point of collapse;[1] a few years later, the English architect D.H. Matthews assisted in the restoration of the building, which included the rebuilding of one of its wood and stone walls (a characteristic style of Aksumite architecture).[2] Thomas Pakenham, who visited the church in 1955, records a tradition that Debre Damo had also once been a royal prison for heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia, like the better known Wehni and Amba Geshen. The exterior walls of the church were built of alternating courses of limestone blocks and wood, fitted with the projecting stumps that Ethiopians call 'monkey heads.' Once inside, Pakenham was in awe of what he saw:
First we were shown the narthex or ante-chamber. In its dusty ceiling one could dimly make out a series of wood-carvings -- peacocks drinking from a vase, a lion and a monkey, several fabulous animals. These, as I knew, were probably copies from Syrian textiles imported into the country. The designs looked familiar enough -- hardly different from the fabulous beasts that decorate our Romanesque churches. And in fact, as I reflected, the art of Egypt and Syria and Byzantium was developing on similar lines to European art when these panels were being cut. It was a melancholy thought that, ten centuries later, workmanship is not to be had in Ethiopia.
When we had gained the nave of the church, the full excitement of the architecture was apparent. The stones holding up the roof piers were actual Axumite relics incorporated in the Christian structure; while the doors and windows which held up the roof were all Axumite in style; their knobbly frames were of exactly the same design as those on the obelisks I had seen at Axum. But the demands of the Christian church had produced entirely un-Axumite features. Below the nave roof a 'clerestory' of wooden windows let in a dim religious light from the outside world. And just visible above the ubiquitous draperies that shrouded the church in hieratic gloom, we could see a chancel arch leading to the sanctuary. It was exciting to see, here in this fortress above the wastes of Moslem Africa, features cast in the strong mould of the basilicas of early Christendom
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Exodus to the Rock Churches of Tigray
Climbing the rock churches of Mariam Korkor, Daniel Korkor and Abuna Yemata Guh in the Tigray Region of Northern Ethiopia. (originally made to accompany Marleys Exodus, but youtube pulled it so now it has canned dub music)
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