Ethiopia things to do

Situated in Bahar Dar! Lake Tana is famous mostly as the source of the Blue Nile and as the largest lake of Ethiopia and one of the highest large lakes in the world. At the same time, Lake Tana is also...

A long-gone ancient centre that still holds an influential energy. The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient E...

The main castle was built in the late 1630s and early 1640s on the orders of Fasilidas. The Emperor, who was greatly interested in architecture - St Marys in Axum was another of his works - was also r...

(for men only) Almost as soon as you leave the main Adigrat-Adwa road, you can see the flat-topped mountain on which Debre Damo is located looming over the surrounding landscape. It still takes quite...

in Addis Ababa. Tafari Makonnen was made Emperor and proclaimed Negusa Negast (King of Kings), in Ethiopia. He was crowned on November 2, 1928 as Emperor Haile Selassie I at Addis Ababa's Cathedral of S...