Tag Archives: Ethiopia

• January 20, 2013 – 5:39 pm

  Pictures of the Week – Timkat in Gondar

  Timkat is the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of Epiphany. It is celebrated on January 19. Timket celebrates the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. This festival is best known for its ritual reenactment of baptism. During the ceremonies of Timkat, the Tabot, a model of the Ark of the Covenant, which is present in every [...]

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  • onder: Ethiopia, Frank Janssens, photo Timkat, Timkat
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• November 23, 2012 – 5:04 pm

  Online bij Battuta Reizen

  De ETHIOPIE – DANAKIL/SIMIEN expeditie! Wil je mee? Info hier.

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  • onder: Afar, Battuta Reizen, Danakil, Ethiopia, Ethiopië, expeditie, expedition, Frank Janssens, frankfocus
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• April 15, 2012 – 2:48 pm

  FrankFocus presenteert

  In maart 2013 organiseert FrankFocus een avontuurlijke reis naar Ethiopië. De reis bestaat uit drie delen. We beginnen met een zesdaagse expeditie doorheen de Danakil Depressie (Afar Regio) gevolgd door een verkenning van Tigray. De reis eindigt met een zesdaagse trekking over het Simien gebergte met de mogelijkheid om de hoogste top van Ethiopië te [...]

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  • onder: Danakil reis, Ethiopia, Ethiopië, Frank Janssens, frankfocus, Madafocus, Simien gebergte trekking, Simien trekking
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• February 15, 2012 – 12:40 pm

  Ethiopian Religious Art

  The Debre Berhan Selassie Church in Gondar is famed for its beautiful examples of Ethiopian church art. Built by an emperor and preserved by an archangel, it is also among the most important churches of Ethiopia. The inside walls of the church depict biblical scenes and saints and the ceiling is covered with the faces [...]

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  • onder: Afewerk Tekle, art, church, Debre Berhan Selassie Church, Debre Libanos, Ethiopia, Gondar, religious
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• February 1, 2012 – 3:05 pm

  Pictures of the Week

  Bride at Axum, Ethiopia Friends at Timkat celebration – Gondar, Ethiopia Entering Fasil’s castle – Gondar, Ethiopia

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  • onder: Axum, Blue Nile, Debre Marcos, Ethiopia, frankfocus, Gondar, pictures of the week
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• December 19, 2011 – 3:53 pm

  Catchy colors and geometric shapes in the DANAKIL

  The Danakil Desert in Ethiopia is the hottest place on earth and the lowest part of Africa. There are few places in the world where you are so isolated and so completely at the mercy of the elements. Especially since regularly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

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  • onder: Afar, Dallol, Danakil, depression, Erta Ale, Ethiopia, frankfocus, volcano
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• October 1, 2010 – 12:42 pm

  FrankFocus photo reportages

  Famadihana – Turning of the Bones Famadihana (reburial) is a funerary tradition of the Malagasy people in Madagascar. Known as the turning of the bones, people bring forth the bodies of their ancestors from the family crypts and rewrap them in fresh cloth, then dance with the corpses around the tomb to live music. Photo [...]

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  • onder: African Lens, bull jump, Demotix, Ethiopia, famadihana, fotografie, Madagascar, photography, reportage, reportages, VII, VII VISIONAIRES
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• August 18, 2010 – 9:56 am

  New Ethiopia Pics

  The Karo is an Omotic speaking group that lives in the South Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region in Ethiopia. The group is closely related to their neighbors the Hamar and the Banna. The most striking thing about Karo people’s symbolic and ornamental expressions is the painted body and face decorations. [...]

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  • onder: body, clay, clay disc, decoration, disc, Erbore, Ethiopia, foto, Karo, lip, Mursi, paint, photo, photography
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• August 11, 2010 – 1:25 pm

  Hamar ‘bull jump’ – a photo series

  The Hamar is a tribal people in southwestern Ethiopia. They live in Hamer Bena woreda (or district), a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR). They are largely pastoralists, so their culture places a high value on cattle. The Hamar people [...]

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  • onder: bull jump, ceremony, Ethiopia, Hamar, leaping of the bulls, photography, rite of passage, tribe
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• February 15, 2010 – 5:41 pm

  Een erectie

  De zolang verhoopte erectie kwam plots. Na het onduidelijke maar hoopgevende telefoontje van mijn man in Konso repte ik me pijlsnel om erbij te zijn; maar de boomlange olahita stond al, geketend in touwen; de tricolore van de zuidelijke naties en volkeren wapperend in zijn top. Was ik te laat? Het bleek van niet. Het [...]

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  • onder: ceremonie, erectie, erection, Ethiopia, Ethiopië, generatieboom, generation tree, Konso, oprichting, stam, tribal, tribe, volk
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