{"id":264,"date":"2018-09-28T20:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T20:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/?page_id=264"},"modified":"2020-12-27T21:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T21:42:49","slug":"musterseite-9-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/?page_id=264","title":{"rendered":"28. September – In Gonder – sightseeing and organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"This morning, after breakfast, we go together with Christina and Daniel, our Spanish acquaintances, to the „Gemp“, the 70,000 square meter castle district in Gonder.
\nThe castle complex developed between the 17th and the 18th century – an endless succession of emperors who killed each other. Until Emperor Fasiladas came to power (the namesake of the most important\u00a0 palaces), the Ethiopian emperors pulled through the country with sack, pack and court, because they had the princes and other vassals better under control. At some point the campgrounding, especially in the\u00a0 rainy season, became too much and Fasiladas settled in Gonder and had, with the support of the\u00a0 Portuguese missionaries, to build the first palace.<\/p>\n

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It is an impressive collection of mansions recognized as World Heritage and maintained by UNESCO.
\nFor details, e.g. on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

The tour with the Spanish couple was very amusing, especially Wendelins strive to sweep up the\u00a0 remnants of his Spanish. Christina struggles with
\nEnglish, and Wendelin’s stammering encourages her to speak English. At least we believe.<\/p>\n

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Annette, Christina, Mohammed, unser F\u00fchrer und Daniel aus Saragossa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We continue to the 17th century church of Debre Birhan Selassie, where an Orthodox prayer or sermon is currently taking place. Tourists are stomping among the faithful, but they seem not be\u00a0 disturbed by it.<\/p>\n

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Kirche Debre Birhan Selassie. Es soll „Die Wahre Dreifaltikkeit“ hei\u00dfen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, we go to Fasiladas‘ Bath, a moated castle,\u00a0 where he used to go in to heal his skin problems. It is unfortunately only once a year, namely to\u00a0 Epiphanes, the feast of the baptism of Christ, really filled up to the top with water. Fasilides ordered, that only at Epiphanies the festivities should take place there.
\nMohammed, our Muslim guide, tells of a custom for Epiphanes – that young men throw the coveted girl a lemon. If she let’s the lemon lie, it will be nothing. If she throws it back, he can ask again …
\nOnly he should hit the right lady with the lemon,\u00a0 otherwise it could be embarrassing.<\/p>\n

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Wasserschloss, um diese Jahreszeit mit trockenen F\u00fc\u00dfen…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the afternoon we tried to organize the other\u00a0 destinations, which is not so easy. We hope to be able to hike in the Simien Mountains in the next few days.<\/p>\n

Finally, the young man from Tesfa-Tours has replied, but the hike has got quite expensive now.<\/p>\n

So everything is not moving streamlined – but\u00a0 nevertheless it\u2018s interesting. Like the statue of Emperor Thewodros II in the central square in Gonder.<\/p>\n

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This morning, after breakfast, we go together with Christina and Daniel, our Spanish acquaintances, to the „Gemp“, the 70,000 square meter castle district in Gonder. The castle complex developed between the 17th and the 18th century – an endless succession of emperors who killed each other. Until Emperor Fasiladas came to power (the namesake of … 28. September – In Gonder – sightseeing and organizing<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2018.burbankwerner.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}