{"id":276945,"date":"2019-05-24T00:03:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=c63c31cbb0c56e7a0507840368f0243c"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:53:41","slug":"a-travel-feature-said-harars-walled-city-still-feels-unlike-anywhere-else-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276945","title":{"rendered":"A travel feature said Harar\u2019s walled city still feels unlike anywhere else in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The National published a travel feature arguing that UNESCO-listed Harar, in eastern Ethiopia, can make a visitor feel lost in both geography and time.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A travel feature said Harar\u2019s walled city still feels unlike anywhere else in Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>The piece described the ancient walled city, its alleys, shrines, and markets as a living archive of Islamic scholarship and Horn trade routes rather than a postcard stop.<\/p>\n<p>Culture writing about Harar matters because the city sits at the edge of Oromo, Somali, and highland Ethiopian histories, and tourism pitches often flatten that layered past.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture and travel archive, the Harar feature is a dated reference for how foreign media sold eastern Ethiopia\u2019s heritage before later security shocks remade tourist maps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/lifestyle\/travel\/harar-ethiopia-is-an-ancient-city-like-no-other-1.864902\">The National<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harar, Ethiopia is an ancient city like no other&nbsp;&nbsp;The NationalIt&#8217;s easy to feel lost, both geographically and in time, when you&#8217;re in eastern Ethiopia&#8217;s Unesco World Heritage-listed Harar. The ancient walled city, scattered &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a2R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754898,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276945\/revisions\/754898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}