East Jerusalem, Israel
Immovable Ladder on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Cairo, Egypt
Cairo's City of the Dead
In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.
Jinja, Uganda
Source of the Nile at Jinja
A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Dallol
The hottest place on the planet.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Erta Ale
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Chemin de Fer Railway Museum
Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.
Shendi, Sudan
Meroe Pyramids
These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.
