Ethiopia

Roundtrip in Ethiopia

To make a roundtrip in Ethiopia is the best way to discover the country. During a roundtrip in Ethiopia, you can see much of the magnificent and varied landscapes, you pass villages and markets and you enjoy the vivid street life with busy or talking people, cows, sheep, goats and chickens walking around everywhere, donkey or horse carts loaded with goods, farmers working on the fields, playing children who greet you with a broad smile and huts scattered everywhere in the countryside.

ROUNDTRIP IN NORTH ETHIOPIA

A roundtrip in the northern part of Ethiopia brings you to the different Historical Places such as Lake Tana, Gondar, Axum and Lalibela. In this part of the country daily African life is integrated with a rich history, impressive monuments, churches and a deep rooted faith.

ROUNDTRIP IN SOUTH ETHIOPIA

During a roundtrip in South Ethiopia you will visit tribes who still live according to their ages old culture and habits. Everywhere you see beautiful ornamented people and in the villages of the different tribes life is going on as it has been for ages.

ROUNDTRIP IN EAST- AND WEST ETHIOPIA

When you make a roundtrip in this parts of Ethiopia you visit areas such as Danakil Desert with its Afar nomad who have been salt traders for ages, the 1000 years old walled muslim city Harar, tropical rain forests and different tribes such as Anak, Nuer and Surma.

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Semien Mountains in the Northern Ethiopia

The Semien National Park and Simien Mountains in northern Ethiopia, 100 km. north of the historic site Gondar. The Semien Mountains NP was founded in 1969 and covers an area of 220 Km²; Semien Mountains National Park: is registered in 1978 by the UNESCO as one of the World’s Heritage. Like everywhere in Ethiopia is also the Semien Mountains National Park and its natural inhabitants threatened as more and more land for agricultural use by farmers and even the steep mountain slopes are ploughed. This brought the Semien Mountains National Park in 1996 on the UNESCO list are of World Heritage Sites in Danger ". Meanwhile more than 10 years later there is little change about this situation, the farmers still remain parts of the park space. In general, farmers in Ethiopia believes that the land belongs to them, and asks themselves are the animals more improtant than the people? Why should we leave the place which belongs to our anscestors have lived and woked there for many years. Thus, the government don’t dare to put away these people form the National Park. Yet both the government, nature conservation organizations and farmers together should findout a better solution so that something might remain from the Ethiopian majestic landscapes such as the Semien Mountains and their natural inhabitants.

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Saint Yared

The Ethiopian Re'ese Liqawnt (head professor), Yared, was born on April 25, 505 A.D. in the city of Aksum. His father was named Adam and his mother Tauklia. Yared's lineage was from the priesthood of Aksum. When he was six years old his parents gave Yared to the tutorship of Yishaq, who was a teacher in Aksum. Under this teacher, Yared completed the study of the alphabet and began to study the Psams. However, he had difficulty learning his lesson and was sent back to his parents by his teacher. His father having died in the meantime, his mother, Tauklia, placed him in the hands of her brother, Abba Gedeon, who was the parish priest, with the request that he should raise and educate Yared. Abba Gedeon was the teacher of the Old and New Testaments in the courtyard of the church of St. Mary of Sion and he had begun translating the Holy Scriptures into Geez from Hebrew and Greek. Yared lodged with Abba Gedeon and began studying along with the other children but for years he lagged behind the others in his studies and so was constantly reprimanded and punished by the new teacher. Yared was not a bright student and however much he studied he could not grasp his lessons. Because of his slow-mindedness he became an object of derision and mockery to his classmates. One day his uncle whipped Yared severely, saying: You should not lag behind your classmates and you should pay attention to your studies as the others do.

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