A dog sits in front of a shop on the main street of the old city of Harar. Two variants, person and no.
All this week (which is a travel week, so no guarantee how many there will be), I will post dogs of Harar.
Tag: Dog
Naptime, North Stelae Field, Axum, Tigray, Ethiopia, April 2009
A dog (one of the family that apparently lives in the Stelae Field) naps on top of the Nefas Machew ruin, with part of the Great Stela in the background.
Nefas Machew was a substantial tomb, with a huge single-slab roof, which collapsed when the Great Stela fell upon it, snapping the substantial supporting stones, which you can see scattered around where the dog is napping.
Watchdog, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 2008
A dog just awakes from its nap in the middle of a cobblestone alley, in Addis Ababa. I took a couple photos of this serene-looking dog before I decided that I really wanted some eye contact, which I achieve by calling out to it “salaam, wusha. . . “* Well, it turns out that this lazy, serene-looking dog is quite an aggressive watchdog, and I had to retreat from there, as the dog’s amused owner tried to keep it under control, while I just backed away, saying “yikerta, yikerta!”**
* “hello, dog”
** “excuse me, excuse me!”