"Sandals monument" Top 5 Page for this destination Asmara Off The Beaten Path Tip by hunwagner

Another bizarre sight along the same lines is this giant statue of a pair of sandals in the middle of a major crossroads.
These sandals were worn by the Eritrean freedom fighters, and are still very common among the poor.
Appearently there is a tradition in Eritrea of keeping the shoes of the dead to remind the living of them, and this monument commemorates those killed in the fighting in that tradition.