I'm headed to Ethiopia soon and I'm busy reading everything I can get my hands on about the country. Thus I eagerly picked up a copy of Culture Smart! Ethiopia. The Culture Smart! series offers insights into the customs and cultures of dozens of different countries. As a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Ethiopia
Travel Read: Culture Smart! Ethiopia
I'm headed to Ethiopia soon and I'm busy reading everything I can get my hands on about the country. Thus I eagerly picked up a copy of Culture Smart! Ethiopia. The Culture Smart! series offers insights into the customs and cultures of dozens of different countries. As a ..."Obama Effect" helps African tourism
Last year was a bad year for travel in most places, but a continent that has generally been overlooked by the majority of travelers is seeing boom times--Africa.
Africa is the only continent to see a rise in tourism last year, up 5 percent when most other places felt the ...Are fold-out maps obsolete? Not if you want to understand your destination
Is the age of opening up a map to figure out where you are a thing of the past? According to a recent post on Bad Latitude, they're one of ten travel items that are now obsolete.
tweetmeme_url = ...Ethiopian tribe hopes museum and tourism will save its culture
The Konso people of southern Ethiopia live in a remote region, but that hasn't saved them from grave robbers. These little-known farmers, who number only about a quarter of a million, have gotten the attention of international art dealers because the Konso honor their dead ...Peace on earth, goodwill toward men: two places where it worked
We hear a lot about peace and friendship over the holidays, but the reality is that different religions and peoples are constantly fighting. It seems we can never get along. Or at least that's what the history books would have you believe. History focuses on change, and ...The top 8 tourist destinations of tomorrow
The rapidly changing landscape of today's globalized economy means that countries are developing at breakneck pace. Yesterday's war zones are turning into tomorrow's tourist destinations at the blink of an eye, while today's utopias (see: Dubai) are disintegrating just as ...Coming attractions: Ethiopia
There aren't many countries that can truly call themselves unique. France has great cuisine, but so does Italy. India has challenging and beautiful mountaineering routes, and so does Peru.
But Ethiopia really is unique. It's the only African country that was never ...The Ethiopian coffee ceremony
We've all heard of the Japanese tea ceremony, but in Ethiopia they have an elaborate ceremony for that other great caffeinated beverage--coffee.
The Ethiopians discovered coffee, surely the greatest of their many cultural achievements, so it's not surprising they ...Not-so Dangerous Destinations
"You're going where?!" my father asked when I told him of my plans to go to Colombia. The Colombia he knows of, the one from the 1980's, is filled with cocaine, street violence, and Pablo Escobar's thugs. The country's days as a dangerous destination are gone, but its stigma ...Classic Trek: Semien Mountains, Ethiopia
Ethiopia is home to one of the more spectacular, yet lesser known, classic treks of the world. The Semien Mountains, found in the northern part of the country, offer amazing scenery, dizzying heights, and unique wildlife, with treks that can range anywhere from one to two ...Lost city found in Ethiopia
One of Africa's most interesting countries has just got a new site to visit.
An ancient Muslim city thought lost for a thousand years has recently been discovered. A team of French archaeologists have found the location of the medieval trading center of Gendebelo.
While ...Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia
The news wires have been aflame for the past couple of months with reports of the amazing new fossil called Ida, which has been hailed as the fabled "missing link" just as Lucy was when it was excavated in Ethiopia in 1974. Journalistic hyperbole aside, they're remarkable ...Ethiopian stowaway lands in Dulles - will be sent back home
Baggage handlers at Dulles International airport got quite the shock when they noticed a arm sticking out from the bags in the hold of an Ethiopian Airways 767. The arm belonged to a stowaway, who was naturally suffering from dehydration. For some reason, stowaways are ...Archeological adventures in East Africa
Ethiopian Airlines has teamed up with the Tanzanian Tourist Board to offer a unique travel experience to East Africa, in which travelers will go on an archeological adventure that will send them in search of the Lost Ark and to the depths of the Olduvai Gorge, believed to be ...Ten Great Unknown Treks
Every adventure traveler knows about the Inca Trail or the Annapurna Circuit. They're amongst the best known hikes in the world, and the amount of traffic on those trails reflects that. While they both offer amazing scenery and a great travel experience, that experience can ...Ethiopian Airlines Offering Free Tickets to Africa
Traditionally speaking, flights to Africa can be amongst the most expensive you'll find, and there are seldom deals to be found when flying there. But right now, Ethiopian Airlines is running a "buy 1, get 1 free" promotion that makes it more affordable than ever to make the ...Tour d'Afrique Off and Running!
The 2009 edition of the Tour d'Afrique got underway last Sunday, with cyclists setting out from Cairo, Egypt on a 7317 mile long race to Cape Town, South Africa. In between they'll pass through the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia, ...Bollywood Reaches the Ends of the Earth
Is Indian musical cinema challenging Hollywood's world-wide pop culture dominance? Perhaps not in most places, but the 4-hour, song-and-dance-filled melodramas have fans in some pretty unexpected parts of the world. Shashank Bengali, the East Africa correspondent for ...Why wait a year for your next New Year's Eve?
How was New Year's Eve in your neck of the woods?
If you were a little disappointed with how it turned out, don't wait a full year before your next opportunity for end of year shenanigans. Just hop on a plane/train/taxi or chartered donkey and head overseas to intercept ...Holy Ethiopian City Harar Hopes to Become Tourist Hub
I've never heard of Harar, Ethiopia, but maybe I should have because it's the fourth holiest city in Islam, behind Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. More importantly, it's possibly the birthplace of coffee. Last year, the city was named a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the ...
