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Ethiopia

We are entering the outskirtis of Harar. Harar is a city in eastern Ethiopia. It’s surrounded by a centuries-old defensive wall that has several large gates, including Duke's Gate. The city is known for its maze like alleys and traditional houses decorated inside with flat hanging baskets. It has a population of 130,000. It is a medieval city on the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley not too far from the Somali border. Harar's heritage is almost entirely Muslim and Oriental.
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Where we had lunch two days in a row. One of the cleaner nice restaurants in town.
Local ladies going about their daily activities in town.
Our group stopped for lunch at the Fresh Touch Restaurant. It was cooler to eat outside in the afternoon heat.
After lunch we visited the crowded Megalo Gugo Market, a center for baskets of woven grass, decorative wall mats, bright shawls, building supplies, fruits, vegetables, spices, grains all from the local province.
We don't know the word congestion at home in the US. You could barely move within the market areas.
Sort of a swap meet of everything including repairing automobiles, construction, food. You name it .. it was here in one state or another.
Kind of a one stop everything.
I think I see what I am looking for... Not!!!
Anyone need home made coat hangers??
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Young girl hard at work in the market. She is literally cooking in front of us and selling her food to go.
Young girl hard at work cleaning up here recent cooking.
A young face in the market.
A door was open on a house just off the market and I stuck my head in the door and shot this photo.
Young mothers looking out the door of their home inside the Market.
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