mursi people of southern omo Ethiopia and were on idea comes from my feeling the first time i visited the mursi tribe of south omo the woman of course of custom have their lips cut so a disk can be inserted around the age 15 just before marriage the sheer amount of adorament with which they ornament themselves is awork of art in and of itself the mursi are nomadic and roughly 7500 who remain live mainly in the mango national park To paint the lip plates and all the decoration seem paintless to me
Ethiopia land of origin
Ethiopia is truly a land of discovery brilliant and beautiful secreative mysterious and extraordinary above all things it is a country of great antiquity with a culture and tradition dating back more than 3000 years the traveller in Ethiopia make a journey through time transported by a beautiful mouments and the ruins of edifices built long center ago Ethiopia like many other African countries is a multi-ethnics state injera is made from a cereal grain that is unique known as Teff fortunately for Ethiopian jews and all Ethiopian depends on Teff injera christanity in Ethiopia the Ethiopia orthodox union church on autonomous Christianity church headed by a patriarch and closely related to the coptic church of Egypt was the stateof church Ethiopia The kingdom of Aksum officially adopted Christianity in the 4 centre
Bahirdar
578km from Addisababa good hotels and is located on sothern shores of lakeTana the source of bluenile with its ancient island monastery and both the blue and white nile most spectacular features thr Tis isat waterfalls on the island Dega Estefanos you will find the church of saint stefanos collection of icons and manuscripts and house the mummified remain of a number of Ethiopian emperors
Debre markos
305 km north of the capital and also accessable by air you will find the 19 centenary church of markos(saint mark) with its pale but beautiful painting depicting scene of biblical and religious history
Awash national park
Awash national park is the a sympole of conservation practices in Ethiopia it is one of the two national parks first establish and among the first the park host ecological resources value wildlife beisa oryx waterbuck Gazelle kudu lion Birds three species of bustards kori secretry birds why visit this park in awash national park you can see a waterfull natural hot springs and the dormant Fental volcano birds life in the park is established and many Ethiopian endemic birds can be seen
Babile
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Babile Elephants sanctuary 25 km from Harar an elevated pleateau one looks down at the deep the sanctuary was originally gafaltered rotact a supposed elephant subspcies elephant can live in almost any habitant with sufficient food and water but in the reserve they prefer to stay in the Erer vally babile is also home to hot thermal springs used to supply much of eastern Ethiopia
Addisababa diplomatic city of Africa
Located on a well watered pleteau surraunded by hills and mountain in the geographical centre of the country Addisababa is one of the booming and fast growing capital cities in Africa Entoto park called to be the lung of Addisababa unity park situate d with in menilk palace The holy trinity catedral must see visite in Addisababa Grand Anwar mosque largest iconic and oldest mosque Tewodros 2 squre a place to see the replica of first cannon made in Ethiopia by emperor Tewodros Addisababa museum is one of the public museum in the city National museum of Ethiopia ranked among in subsaharan Africa
Aksum Land of Queen Sheba
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Ethiopia historic journey is long and many ruins can be seen in the country A good exemple of this is the former settlement of yeha which is belived to have been built around 800 BC yeha the country pre Aksum foundation of Ethiopia civilization is situated between Aksum and Adwa in the provice of tigray the towering ruins of yehas Temple are in such good conditions today that they have become one of turist attractions of historical significant after yeha had follen the town of Aksum was established in 500 BC which becomes the ancient city of Ethiopian civilization and power full kingdom The Aksumite were renowed for their fine architecture crafts and skills in particular as mason and mental works Greek traders knew Aksum as centere of empire which had trade links with india Arabia Rome Egypt Today Aksum abound in archaeological and great granite stone curved oblisks known as stela The stelae are royal tombs or memories Queen of sheba of Ethiopia and king Solomon of Israel many Ethiopian belive that the relationship between sheba and Solomon resulted to a son who founded Solomon Dynasty museum Aksum is now one of the most visited historical city in Ethiopia
Debre Damo
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Debre Damo monastery is situated on isolated mountain in northern part of tigray it is unque compared with most Ethiopian monasteries DebreDamo was built in the sixth century AD with curved wood panels painted ceiling and walls dedicated to the legend of saint (abuna)Aregawi DebreDamo is centred on the nine saints who came to Ethiopia from syria to spread Christianity in the tigray region a prominent monastics educational centre for Ethiopian orthodox Tewahedo church DebreDamo is only accessible by climbing up by a rope which is made of plaited leather lowered from the cliffs The feast of saint (Abuna)Aregawi is celebration on October 14 which culminates in a pilgrimage to Debre Damo from all over the country
Lalibela The African Jerusalem
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Queen Gudit was born in lasta near lalibela Her Father was Falasha (beta lsreal) king colled Gideon that time Falasha refused to pay tax to the Aksumite kingdom and the king of Aksum sent troops to the Falasha region and forced them to pay tax Following Queen Gudits campaign againest Aksum marara Tekelehaimanot formarly founded the zagwe Dynasty lalibela stands on soft red volcano rock and was originally known as Roha lalibela 11 churchs cutout of solid red volcano curved in to the shap of cross All the churchs are still used as place of worship
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