May 6—In the afternoon we visited a second group of five churches in the town of Lalibela. Once again we walked through trenches cut into hard rock and encountered a variety of worship sits chiseled from the living stone. My own thoughts resonate with the conclusions of 16th century Portuguese traveler Francesco Alvares.
He wrote: “I am weary of writing more about these buildings, because it seems to me that I shall not be believed if I write more, and because regarding what I have already written they may blame me for untruth, therefore I swear by God, in Whose power I am, that all that is written is the truth, and there is much more than what I have written, and I have left it that they may not tax me with falsehood.”
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