ARBA MINCH

The name means 'Forty spring's the town and hotel are perched on a hill  overlooking the twin lakes Chamo and Abaya, and enjoy one of Ethiopia's more splendid panoramic views. The lakes are famous for the over 100kg, Nile perch which draws the fisherman and crocodiles in great numbers - not as many as in lake Rudolf, But considerably easier to see in comfort and an extraordinarily rich variety of birdlife. On the far  shores of Abaya and Chamo lies the national park of Nech Sar. 

ETHIOPIA: AN ANCIENT LAND

Ethiopia is old beyond imagination. More then three million years ago, one of our first ancestors walked that portion of the earth that is now Ethiopia: namely, Lucy (Dinkenesh to Ethiopian), meaning ‘Thou Art Wonderful’ the remains of this ‘ firs human’ – an almost complete hominid skeleton—were discovered in 1974 at Hadar on the lower Awash River in Ethiopia’s barren and forbid ding Dankil region.

It is widely thought that Dinkenesh’s homeland—Ethiopia –holds the key to a myriad of other questions that have puzzled palaeoanthropologist about our past. To this end, palaeoanthropological and archaeological work continues at Hadar and at a number of other sites along the Ethiopia section of the Great Rift Valley and in the Omo Valley. More