Allolabad is dotted with steam vents and small craters of hot mud and hissing gases, but most beautiful are several pools of hot water. These pools have an unusual, deep green, blue, and yellow color. They are incredibly deep and are filled with hot, steaming water. In one pool there is observed nearly constant geyser […]
8 days tour to Jimma, Weliso, Welkite, Mizan Teferi, Bebeka, Tepi and other coffee plantation areas. These tours bring you to the origin of coffee. They take you to the Mother Coffee Tree in the coffee forest of Kaffa region in southwest Ethiopia. This is the place where Kaldi the goat herder discovered coffee. Much […]
The Danakil Depression is a sprawling desert found in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, close to the country’s border with Eritrea. The best way to get to the Danakil Depression is via a domestic flight into the nearby town of Mekele, followed by a 3-4 hour drive into the desert. Visitors can choose to […]
The Suri are an agro-pastoral people and inhabit part of the West Omo zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia as well as parts of neighboring South Sudan. There are some 34,000 Suri in the Southwest of Ethiopia. Suri is their self-name that identity 2 groups called Tirmaga and Chai. A third group, speaking a […]
More than 800 bird species are found in Ethiopia, of which 16 are endemic. A further 14 species are shared with Eritrea, which was part of Ethiopia until 1991. Ethiopia’s diverse habitats, highlands, lowlands, forests, lakes, wetlands, and riverine systems provide sites for wintering or passage birds. Important Bird Areas of Ethiopia, published by the […]