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Wenchi Crater

Wenchi Crater Lake, Ethiopia – 2014. You can get to the town of Wenchi from either Ambo or Weliso. Either way it’s a several hour trip over a very rough gravel and dirt road. This is a volcano caldera with a lake in it. The lake is about 450 meters below the rim of the volcano and you must go by foot or horse to the lake and a boat to the Monastery of Wenchi Chirkos which is on an island in the lake.
There are lots of small farms inside the crater
There are lots of small farms inside the crater
Wenchi Crater Lake and Deber Island
A bird
Thistles
Flowering trees
Flowering trees
There are lots of small farms inside the crater
The moon very visible in the early afternoon
Wenchi Crater Lake
Dugout boat
A local girl loading a water container on her back
The steeple on one of the Wenchi Chirkos Monastery buildings
Monastery of Wenchi Chirkos – this building was referred to as Bethlehem
The steeple on the Wenchi Chirkos church
The Wenchi Chirkos church. The claim is that the foundations date back to the 15th century
A duck on Wenchi Crater Lake
The climb up from the lake was long and steep so several of us chose take horses