Churches in Ethiopia

The BBC has a slideshow about little-known (and difficult of access) churches in Ethiopia:

With their sheer cliffs, surreal rock formations, and vertical spires, northern Ethiopia’s Gheralta Mountains recall stretches of the southwestern United States’ red desert landscape. The primary difference: perched high and tucked away into these mountain cliffs are some of the country’s least-visited rock-hewn Ethiopian Orthodox cave churches, some of which are more than a thousand years old.
The Gheralta cluster, located in Tigray Province, includes more than thirty structures. Although local legend claims that these churches date to between the Fourth and Sixty Centuries, historians believe that they were more likely built from the Ninth to the Twelfth Centuries. That, and its location, makes the Gheralta cluster the geographic and artistic midpoint between the early Ethiopian Orthodox centers of Aksum, built from the Fourth to the Tenth Centuries in the north, and Lalibela, from the Twelfth to the Thirteenth Centuries, further south.

Rico says it's another place he won't be visiting...