The Simiens are one of Africa’s most dramatic landscapes, endowed with arresting valleys, hidden waterfalls and sudden precipices. Maurice Schutgens travelled to the popularly named Roof of Africa to experience life on Ethiopia’s isolated plateau.
Wendy Watta signs up for an immersive Ethiopian food tour in Addis Ababa.
The last remaining stronghold of Ethiopian wolves is found on the alpine plateaux of the Bale Mountains National Park, where disease and human encroachment have pushed them to the brink of extinction. Neville Slade, project manager for the Frankfurt Zoological
When Jill Craig and a friend embark on planning a trip to Ethiopia, they quickly realise that cheap isn’t always best. It hadn’t started like this. No, no, no. Several years ago when I first became enamoured with the idea of visiting
Two years ago, Mario Rigby, a Canadian fitness instructor, dropped everything to head to South Africa for the start of an epic solo 12,000 km walk through 12 countries, ending up in Cairo. We caught up with him last month
TIMKAT FESTIVAL, GONDAR, ETHIOPIA January 19th Ethiopia’s most colourful festival, this Orthodox Christian ceremony celebrates the epiphany, or baptism of Jesus Christ. Although the festival is celebrated elsewhere in Ethiopia, the one at Gondar, a two-day bus ride, or a short flight,
Mike McCaffrey travels to Ethiopia’s remote Omo Valley to witness a boy’s journey into manhood, but finds it is the women who must show the greatest courage of all. The bull-jumping ceremony in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley is a rite of passage
Charlotte Beauvoisin plunges into the Nile for a white-water rafting adventure, and makes a few friends on the way. White-water rafting had been high on my bucket list for years. When friends told me they were planning a trip to Jinja,