"The dusty, Biblically-beautiful land of Ethiopia lies in the Horn of Africa, a corner of the world also known as the Cradle of Humanity as this is where the first ever humans walked the earth. In 1974 a 3.5 million year-old female hominid was..."
The Best Travel Writing About Ethiopia
In addition to our collection of fabulous hotels - and their equally fabulous reviews - Travel Intelligence is built upon some of the finest travel writing on the web. So, to find a range of travel writing about Ethiopia and general Ethiopia travel tips, you just need to browse the selection of travel articles below...
Articles about Ethiopia
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Timkat in Ethiopia
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Jeroen Bergmans
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
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Ethiopia
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Jeremy Seal
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
"In the grounds of St Mary of Zion’s church, Axum, our guide planted a kiss against the concrete walls of a squat building with a patched-up roof dome. But there were good reasons for Daniel’s unlikely reverence. ‘This is the place,’ he whispered...."
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Hotel Taitu
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Eamonn Gearon
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
"In the incomparable Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon writes of Ethiopia in the Eighth Century that, “...encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Aethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world..."
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Selassie Come Home
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AA Gill
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
"Ethiopa, December 2000. First the good news. The long rains have finished and they were long enough, deep, thick and wet enough. Ethiopia is expecting a beneficent harvest, so that’s a relief, or an absence of relief. You won’t have to wear..."
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Not Smoking in Ethiopia
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
"No one smokes in public in Ethiopia. The Church has never approved of the habit. Memory of famine has reinforced this disapproval and made of it an iron social law. However in a bar, filled with four dozen beautiful statuesque Ethiopian girls poured..."
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Ethiopia
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AA Gill
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
"Ethiopia. Named ‘land of the sunburnt people’ by the Greeks and Abassinya, ‘land of the mixed people’, by the Arabs. Ethiopians don’t like being called Abassinyans; they think ‘mix’ sounds pejorative, though naturally they do sometimes say they..."
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In Search of the Queen of Sheba
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
"I came here looking for the old palace of the Queen of Sheba. I came armed with a pair of stout histories and a promisingly thick archaeological field-guide. I need not have burdened myself. I know nowhere on earth to match Ethiopia. Amid the scent..."
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Before You Die: Addis Ababa
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Anthony Healy
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Ethiopia
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Addis Ababa Region
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Addis Ababa
"Ethiopia: One place I must see is Addis Ababa. Rumour has it, that the city in the mountains was constructed by Italian futurists and is one of the greatest examples of a late 1920’s European urban development dropped into East Africa. Hope..."
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