Splendid Isolation_Ethiopia

Ethiopia is a remote, peculiar, fascinating place—home to ancient, cut-rock churches, a 3 million-year-old skeleton (named Lucy) and the Blue Nile. And, thanks to the Italians who once ran the place, you can get some excellent espresso and tolerable spaghetti in the horn of Africa.

Photography by Emily Taylor

Both in Lalibela: a young goatherd and Abba Libanos Church, built more than 800 years ago.

Both in Lalibela: a young goatherd and Abba Libanos Church, built more than 800 years ago.