Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux

Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux

Asmara et Massawa, reliés par une
des routes les plus spectaculaires
d'Afrique, sont les deux visages du
même pays. Là où les chrétiens et les
musulmans habitent ensemble, dans la
paix et l'harmonie.
Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages.
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861-12: Asmara: Priests with big yellow crosses are waiting for the arrival of the local bishop in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-01: Sunrise in Asmara .A man is walking on
a empty Harnet Avenue on sunrise / Eritrea / Asmara
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-02: Asmara: an eritrean boy is playing
bowling on a old bowling from the Fifties / Eritrea / Asmara
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-03: Asmara: this boy is smiling with his
face covered by ash during the religious festival of Meskel / Eritrea / Asmara
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-04: Asmara: women with white tunics are
praying in the early morning in front of the Enda Mariam church during the Meskel religious festival /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-05:Asmara: young women with white tunics
are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival / Eritrea /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-06: Asmara: young women with white
tunics are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-07: Asmara: young women with white
tunics are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-08: Asmara: young women with white tunics
are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival / Eritrea /
861-21: On the way from Asmara to Massawa, with a beautiful landscape behind, some people are taking pictures with a newly married couple.
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-09: Asmara: young women with white tunics
are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival / Eritrea /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-10: Asmara: young women with white
tunics are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-11: Asmara: young women with white
tunics are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-12: Asmara: Priests with big yellow crosses
are waiting for the arrival of the local bishop in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival
861-03: Asmara: this boy is smiling with his face covered by ash during the religious festival of Meskel
861-19: at the Asmara Station an engine-driver on the train that goes from Asmara to Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-13: Asmara: Priests with a big yellow cross
are waiting for the arrival of the local bishop in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-14: Asmara: An old priest is kissing a coptic
cross while is waiting for the arrival of the local bishop in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-15:Asmara: young women with white tunics
are praying on line in the early morning in front of the Enda Mariam church during the Meskel religious
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-16: Asmara: young women with white tunics
are praying in the early morning in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival / Eritrea /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-17: Asmara: some men with white tunics
are praying in the early morning inside the Enda Mariam church during the Meskel religious festival /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-18: Asmara: an old woman with white
tunics is lighting a candle in the early morning inside the Enda Mariam church during the Meskel religious
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-19: at the Asmara Station an engine-driver
on the train that goes from Asmara to Massawa / Eritrea / Asmara
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-20: The road from Asmara to Massawa, full
of bends. / Eritrea / Ghinda
861-22: Massawa: An old and restored building at the entrance of the bazar, at sunset
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-21: On the way from Asmara to Massawa,
with a beautiful landscape behind, some people are taking pictures with a newly married couple. / Eritrea /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-22: Massawa: An old and restored building
at the entrance of the bazar, at sunset / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-23: Massawa: Some people stand under
the arcades of an old and restored building at the entrance of the bazar, at night / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-24: Massawa: View of an old and restored
building at the entrance of the bazar, at sunset, from an arcade / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-25: Massawa: Some people sit a sunset in
a courtyard in the street of the whores / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-26: Massawa: By night a man is sitting in
front of an old house in Massawa downtown / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-27: Massawa: the Sheikh Hanafi mosque
by night / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-28: Massawa: the coptic cathedral of St
Mariam at sunset, on the Taulud island. / Eritrea / Massawa
861-14: Asmara: An old priest is kissing a coptic cross while is waiting for the arrival of the local bishop in Bahti Meskerem Square during the Meskel religious festival
861-27: Massawa: the Sheikh Hanafi mosque by night
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-29: Massawa: Old archades reflected on
the Massawa Harbour at sunset / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-30: Massawa: Detail of old archades on the
Massawa Harbour / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-31: Massawa: A woman is sitting under an
old archade on the Massawa Harbour, close to decorated columns, on a bar / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-32: Massawa: Two men are walking in front
of an old and crumbling building / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-33: Massawa: Children are playing under
the iron balcony of an old house in the Taulud island. / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-34: Massawa: a coup of coffee on a table of
a bar / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-35: Massawa: inside an old italian style bar
/ Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-36: Massawa: a young waitress is watching
outside the kitchen / Eritrea / Massawa
861-25: Massawa: Some people sit a sunset in a courtyard in the street of the whores
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-37:Massawa: at sunrise an old woman is
sweeping with a broom the rail close to the Massawa harbour / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-38: Massawa: Tarek, the only barber in
Massawa, is sitting on a chair inside his shop. / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-39: Massawa: a man is sitting at the table
of a bar / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-40: a woman is waiting someone close to
her bed. in summer here in Massawa is very hot and many people sleep on the street taking out their
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-41:Massawa: an old man is walking near a
tank from the war against Ethiopia, now a monument on Taulud island. / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-42: Massawa: a woman with a white tunis
is walking in the very early morning on the bridge between Taulud island and Massawa island / Eritrea /
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-43: Massawa: two women with veil are
walking on the bridge between Taulud island and Massawa island / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-44: Massawa: some workers are sitting in
front of the sea watching at the sunrise on the Taulud island / Eritrea / Massawa
861-41:Massawa: an old man is walking near a tank from the war against Ethiopia, now a monument on Taulud island.
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-45:Massawa: at sunset workers are trying
to move a fishing boat in the harbour of the sambuk in Taulud island / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-46: Massawa: on the water of the Red Sea
a father and his son, in search of relief, are taking bath at sunrise; in summer the outside temperature, in
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-47:Massawa: at sunset along the harbour
in Taulud island a father and his son are taking out of the water their fishing nets / Eritrea / Massawa
Eritrea, double face- Erythrée, le pays aux deux visages / 861-48: children are playing togheter jumping
into the pool near the Marina, in the Massawa island. / Eritrea / Massawa
861-48: children are playing togheter jumping into the pool near the Marina, in the Massawa island.
861-49: An old woman is washing something into the water of the Red Sea, in front of the Massawa island
Erythrée, le pays aux deux
visages.
Asmara et Massawa, reliés par une des routes les plus spectaculaires
d'Afrique, sont les deux visages du même pays. Là où les chrétiens et les
musulmans habitent ensemble, dans la paix et l'harmonie.
« Vous devez voir Asmara du ciel » m'a indiqué le père Abraha. Il a raison.
Du haut du clocher de la cathédrale, vous pouvez voir l'église copte, la
mosquée, la synagogue. Et la place Bahti Meskerem où chaque 27
septembre des milliers de croyants se réunissent pour célébrer le « Meskel
», ou la « découverte de la vraie croix », une célébration très importante
pour l'église orthodoxe Erythréenne.
Du clocher vous pouvez également voir l'extrémité orientale de la ville, où
les collines s'inclinent vers la mer rouge. Une fabuleuse route de 2000
mètres de dénivelé qui déploie ses lacets sur 120 kilomètres. Elle arrive
dans la très ancienne Massawa, la « perle de la mer rouge », un port
musulman, au style à la fois Ottoman et Arabe, avec son labyrinthe de
ruelles étroites. Aujourd'hui Massawa garde tout son charme même si le
temps a laissé son empreinte et si beaucoup de bâtiments ont besoin d'être
restaurés...