GITravel, December 2, 2011 10:35 am. Lalibela is Ethiopia‘s equivalent of Petra in Jordan. Surrounded on all sides by rugged and forbidding mountains to the north of the modern province of Wollo, Lalibela gives the impression that you’ve...
GITravel, January 11, 2012 7:22 am. Massive erosion over the years on the Ethiopian plateau has created one of the most spectacular landscapes in the...
GITravel, December 1, 2011 6:01 am. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the fortress city of Gondar – the Royal Enclosure – served as the residence of the Ethiopian emperor, Fasilides, who moved his capital here in 1636...
GITravel, December 25, 2011 5:45 am. Aksum Ethiopia is considered the holiest city in Ethiopia. Christianity was declared the national religion here in the fourth century by the ruller, Enzana, who constructed much of the monumental architecture and...