Festivals

Ethiopia has a number of festivals, many of them unique: Timket (Epiphany), falling on 19 January, is the greatest festival of the year, followed in importance by Meskal (Finding of the True Cross) on 27 September. Easter is the most solemn of the festivals but the Ethiopian New Year (Enkutatash) falls on 11 September in [...]

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The People and Culture

Ethiopia is old: Old beyond all imagination. More than three million years ago the earliest known hominids walked here. Many prehistoric discoveries, including Stone Age tools up to 1.7 million years old and vibrant cave paintings, support the claim that this part of the world was, indeed, the Cradle of Civilisation.
Three thousand years before [...]

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Adventure in Ethiopia

Ethiopia is increasingly becoming recognised as a premier venue for a range of outdoor activities. White-water rafting, trekking, caving and paragliding are all on the increase for the young – and not  so young – along with the more gentle and traditional pursuits of fishing and bird watching. 
White-water rafting is a highly popular activity enjoyed [...]

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Land of Legends…

Ethiopia’s culture and traditions date back over   3 000 years, but human habitation began here much, much earlier. Undoubtedly Ethiopia’s greatest archaeological discovery – and one of the world importance – was the finding, in 1974, of an almost complete hominid skeleton, estimated to be at least 3.5 million years old, at Hadar, in the [...]

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