In January, 2020 we flew to Rome then headed to Africa to visit Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somaliland (a quasi-independent, but unrecognized part of Somalia), and finally Sudan. The feature picture is of the Meroe pyramids; Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt!
Our trip ended with a couple of days in Italy visiting Ostia Antica, the ancient port city of Rome.
This trip was notable for several reasons; not only visiting the country with the most pyramids in the world (Sudan), but the country with the most camels in the world (Somalia), the country with one of the most significant religious relics in the world, the Ark of the Covenant (Ethiopia), and a return visit to the longest river in the world, the Nile (Ethiopia and Sudan are just two of the 11 countries through which the Nile flows). But probably its greatest significance was as the trip that, unknown to us at the time, marked the end of our pre-COVID travel era.
At the end of this trip we began to hear news about a new virus from China. We began to avoid large crowds in airport terminals (especially for flights to and from China). And when we reached Italy for a few days of relaxation before the flight home to Canada we breathed a sigh of relief, never dreaming that just a few hundred kilometres to the north of us COVID was beginning its work making Italy one of the hardest hit countries in the world.
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The ruins of Ostia Antica, Rome’s ancient port city
The town of Ostia Antica
The Sights of Ethiopia
From Eritrea to Ethiopia
