17. Debre Damo

After 3-4 hours of driving on very bad roads, we finally get to Debre Damo, from where one can see Eritrea. Debre Damo is a monastery on top of a flat hill. The only access to it is using a rope to climb about 15 m. Everything (from food to animals, or dead people) must go through that place.

It may look difficult to understand why one would like to run such a long way to go to a place and after all not run into the last 15 m... (in fact, our guide still didn't understood). But I prefered to be conservative.