Gondar's epiphany:its touristic value
The Ethiopian Herald Tuesday, Sep.24 2012 By Zemene Yohannes (Gondar) One of the most breathtaking street festivals of Ethiopia, Teamket (Ethiopian Epiphany) falls every January 19, just in the post harvest season. The festivity is among the most celebrated and colorful ones, people commonly say 'le Teamket Yealhone Kemis Yeabetats' this is to mean every faithful would be expected to dressed up with neat clothes on this day. The majority of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido church followers plan their occasions in this month, wedding, family gatherings and so on are common as January is not fasting period. The celebration outsets on Teamket's eve called Kettra , meaning to make dam as people in the earlier times used to make small dams to get enough water for the festivity. In the afternoon of same day, the arches of covenant found in each church carried on head to a nearby barn to stay the night there. Sunday school choirs in their uniform make queue in