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Tag: Ethiopia
This isn’t one for claustraphobes.
Marble caves, salt lakes and rainbow mountains.
© Evan Williams, Wikimedia Commons Ethiopia itineraries Itineraries are subjective things, dependent on how much time you have, your chosen or enforced style of…
From Colombia to Kosovo, we pick some of our favourite lesser-known places to enjoy a good cup of coffee.
© Dave Watts, Wikimedia Commons This UNESCO-listed national park offers superb trekking and the chance to see the endemic gelada monkey and Walia ibex.…
© Adam Jones, Wikimedia Commons No satisfactory explanation has been postulated for how such a massive block of stone was erected – one Axumite…
South Omo is Africa as it once was, or as some might still imagine it to be, and its mere existence is at once…
A strange lunar landscape studded with active volcanoes, malodorous sulphur-caked hot springs, solidified black lava flows and vast salt-encrusted basins. Straddling the Eritrean border…
© Rod Waddington, Wikimedia Commons Harar is the sort of easy-going, cosmopolitan town where you could settle in for a week and do nothing…
© A. Davey, Wikimedia Commons With fairy-tale castles, venerable churches and other substantial European-influenced buildings, the former capital of Ethiopia is a fascinating place…
The excavation of the churches is something of a mystery – some sources estimate that in the order of 40,000 people would have been…
When to visit Climate Far from being the uniform thirstland of Western myth, Ethiopia is a land of dramatic natural contrasts and variety. Altitudes…
Food To anyone who has travelled elsewhere in Africa, Ethiopian food comes as a welcome revelation. Instead of the bland gristle and starch that…
© DaneyWiki, Wikimedia Commons This is a city with a real buzz, one possessed of a sense of self-definition and place. The world’s fourth-highest…