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Lake Tana

• Gate of Narga Selassie Church
• © UNESCO/Jasmina Sopova

A woman

Woman headed to Tis Abey Market

Narga Selassie Church

One of the finest churches of Lake Tana, the church, dedicated to Ethiopian Queen Mentaweb, features 29 pillars and a thatched roof

The Blue Nile Falls

The magnificent Blue Nile Falls, an hour’s drive from Bahir Dar, known as Tis Abey, or smoke of the Nile

Waiting

Awaiting the ferry that crosses the Blue Nile

Windows

Painted shutters in the cloister of the Church of Ura Kidane Mihret

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