Some fact about the People of Tigray
The Tigray people Location: The Tigray people live in the northern highlands of Ethiopia´s Tigray regional state. The term Tigray is used in Ethiopia for both the people and their region. The Tigray...
View ArticleThe Historical Route of Ethiopia
One of Ethiopia’s primary attractions is her abundance of historical sites, unique in sub-Saharan Africa. While much of the history is impenetrably bound up in myth and legend, a great deal of it is...
View ArticleIs tourism undercutting Ethiopia’s rock-hewn churches?
After the 1991 fall of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam made Ethiopia more amenable to visitors, hardy tourists started to make their way to the remote town of Lalibela, perched in Ethiopia’s Lasta...
View ArticleFascinating: New data on who most travels to Ethiopia, and where its 90...
Growing tourism industry adding tailwind to Horn of African country’s burgeoning economy. MORE than 96 million people are counted as Ethiopian, accounting for 1.3% of the total world population and...
View ArticleLalibela
Perched at an altitude of 2630m, among the wild craggy mountains of Lasta and vast rocky escarpments, there is a stark cathedral-like grandeur to Lalibela, a strange, isolated town famed for its...
View ArticleTravel review: Ethiopia – land of lost Ark
Could a country once ripped apart by famine now be Africa’s most exciting holiday destination? Sarah Marshall visits Ethiopia. Clinging like a limpet to the sheer sandstone rock face, I dig my toes...
View ArticleWorld’s most dedicated Christians? Thousands climb steep cliffs to reach...
THOUSANDS of dedicated Christians clamber up sheer cliffs to pray in hidden rock-hewn ancient Orthodox churches in Ethiopia. The sandstone cliffs of Gheralta in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, which are...
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