Haifa is a city in northern Israel.
Haifa is where you'll find the Baha'i World Center gardens, its administrative buildings, and (together with the city of Acre farther up north) the holy places of the Baha'i Faith in the Holy Land.
The Baha'i gardens on Mount Carmel extends about a kilometer from the base upward, with the Shrine of the Bab, a holy place, in between nineteen terraces.
One can either look upward from the main street below or look downward from the top of Mount Carmel to get a panoramic view of the gardens.
It's a breathtaking, majestical, spiritually uplifting panorama!
That's a devil ray swimming on this Eritrean stamp issued in 1997.
Can you make it out?
A "yes" or "no" sign on this 1993 stamp was the subject of a referendum for independence.
Obviously the Eritreans chose "yes"!
In 1997 Eritrea changed its currency to 100 cents equal 1 nakfa.
A ten-nakfa note and the Eritrean flag are shown on this stamp issued in 2000.
For the 50th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Eritrea issued a set of four stamps.
Shown here is the 25c value picturing farmers and a tractor.
These Flag & Map stamps were issued in 1994.
100 cents equal 1 birr.
Eritrea, a country in northeast Africa, is a little larger than Luzon Island, but its population is just about half of Metro Manila.
As a former Italian colony, Eritrea began issuing stamps in 1892.The region was under British occupation from 1941 to 1952 before it became part of Ethiopia.
Independence from Ethiopia came in 1993 and as an independent state it began issuing stamps from that year on.
The stamps above depict the national flag of Eritrea.
