Lalibela Shopping
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Local Time 3:17 pm Saturday, May 17, 2008
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on September 17, 2005
I bought a hand-cross which is over 70 years old, a bible written in Ge'ez (ancient Ethiopic language, like Ge'ez is to Amharic and Latin to English) which is almost a 100 years old! WARNING: It's illegal to export antiques out of Ethiopia without first obtaining a permit from the National Museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I was reassured many, many times that small hand-crosses and small bibles should be alright... but to be safe, i checked them in at the flight counter in my backpack. But anything more than a hundred years old, even coins, and huge processional crosses and bibles have to be declared and an export permit obtained.
on September 14, 2006
on May 22, 2007
