Amhara Weekly Market – Daily Life in Rural Ethiopia

1,862 views · Published 10 January 2012 · 3:54 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: Travel: The Good, The Bad & The Funny · 2012 · Travel & Events

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Everyone knows Ethiopia is a very poor country. A person is considered rich if they have a donkey to help transport them, and their goods.
 Only a few outside of Addis Ababa can afford cars, motor cycles, motor scooters or even a regular bicycle!  We see a constant procession of painfully thin people who probably have the strongest bones in the world carrying heavy loads daily.

We stop to visit an Amhara Weekly market . These people comprise 26% of the country's population,

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