Ethiopia is truly a land of contrasts and extremes; a land of remote and wild places. Some of the highest and most stunning places on the African continent are found here, ...... Read more
THE HAMERS: DEFYING THE TESTS OF TIME
The Hamer tribe is a pastoral tribe living in southwestern Ethiopia near the Kenyan border in the Southern Omo Zone and is one of the last remaining remote spots on the planet untouched by modern life....... Read more
ESCAPE TO LAKE TANA
Located in the north of Ethiopia some 563 kilometers from Addis Ababa, Lake Tana [pronounced T’ana in Amharic] is the largest lake in Ethiopia and is the source of the Blue Nile........ Read more
AXUM: THE ANCIENT ETHIOPIAN EMPIRE
One of the ancient cities in Ethiopia that had influenced the later development of the modern Ethiopia is the city of Axum. Located 1,100 kilometers from Addis Ababa, Axum was once the seat of the Axumite Empire whose influence spread beyond the Red Sea and Yemen and its trade had even stretched to India. The Axumites lived in the Ethiopian highlands near the Red Sea and enjoyed a strategic position in the trade routes between Yemen and ....... Read more
ENQUTATASH: ETHIOPIAN NEW YEAR
Ethiopia is one of the few countries that retains its own distinct calendar - a quirky calendar in which the year is divided into 13 months - 12 months with 30 days each and a 13th month Pagumé with five or six days depending on if it is a leap year or not. A second unique feature of the Ethiopian calendar is that it is always seven or eight years behind the Gregorian calendar........ Read more
Ethiopia is truly a land of contrasts and extremes; a land of remote and wild places. Some of the highest and most stunning places on the African continent are found here, ...... 
