Category: Ethiopia Encyclopedia

Amharic is the mother tongue of the inhabitants of the Amhara region, only about 30 million people out of a total population of about 118 million. But Amharic was for a long time the official language of the country when...

South of Bahir Dar and Lake Tana (read our article Lake Tana source of the Blue Nile), about thirty kilometers from a chaotic track, is the Blue Nile Falls. An extraordinary site whose...

Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia, located in the Amhara region in the north of the country. The regional capital Bahir Dar (200 000 inhabitants) is located on its southern shore. Close to Bahir Dar, the lake opens up to the...

Ethiopia is a country where religions are very important. The churches have a very large following, especially the two main religions, the Orthodox Christians and the Muslims.

Extract from the story "Seyssinet-Pariset/Addis-Abeba - November 2015- July 2020 - Small chaotic chronicles of various commitments" by Hervé Doulat. The whole story can be read online. We had already mentioned very briefly our ascent of Ras Dashen in Ethiopia in...

(Note: a much more comprehensive article has been written on the Ras Dashen climb). We had been eyeing it since our first trek in Simien, in November 2015 with Allibert Trekking, where it was not...