ETHIOPIAN PEOPLE

A country where welcome still has a meaning, whose people have many diverse and colorful ethnic backgrounds hut are united in their friendliness and pride. A Country where recently may changes have taken place, but where many ancient Customs and traditions remain intact. The tradition of hospitality for instance, for which our people have been justly famous for Centuries. The breath-taking landscapes remain, as unspoilt now as on the day of creation. The immense variety of wildlife remains, wild and free, unaccustomed to and unthreatened by man. The sanctuaries of the ages, the rock hewn churches, their murals, manuscripts, coptic crosses; the Cultural heritage of centuries awaits you. The hotels, Surrounded by magnificent scenery, are ready to greet the honoured guest.

Ethiopia has been called a rich cultural mosaic due to its eighty different languages and dialects and as many, if not more, cultural variations.

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