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getting into Fasilidas' Bath - very crowded
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getting a view
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finally, the water is blessed
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Looking down on Fasilidas's Bath during the ceremony
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Ethiopia Hotel in Gondar
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Deacons lined up and ready
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Deacons doing the Shibsheba, the Dance of David
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Timkat in Gondar Jan 08 (Ethiopian Millenium year)
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boys and youths handing onto the side of the viewing stand
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and now everyone goes mad to get wet
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Abuna Paulos is the one in gold
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a tabot being carried
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groups of youths dance and chant their way around the Piassa
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part of the huge crowd - and many more outside the walls
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many young men & boys jumped into the pool - no women!
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young deacons
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viewing from wherever one can
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trying to get onto the viewing stand
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this young man was itching to dive in
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this hotel-bus pulled up for a while and blocked the view for some people
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these boys climbed up under the stand and were peeking in beside our spot
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scenes in Piassa as tabots were carried back to their home churches
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priests' umbrellas