MEQUAT MARIAM, Ethiopia – A giant eagle glides gracefully over a remote mountaintop in northern Ethiopia as a barefoot man draped in goatskin watches. “It’s a big bird that makes a peaceful sound,” he says in the local Amharic language to two foreigners who have approached the cliff edge. “Where is your country?” Until a few years ago, most people who live in these small villages surrounded by dramatic scenery and rock-hewn churches had never even seen anyone from outside Ethiopia. Read More.
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