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Ethiopia travel information
Harer
Harer enjoys a mild climate throughout the year. Sir Richard Burton, who was the first European visitor to enter the 'forbidden city' incognito said, 'Harar is not hot, cool but not cold'. Harer is considered as the original cultivation center of th ...
Zagwe
The Zagwe Dynasty The fall of Axum resulted in 'Ethiopia forgetting the world, and being forgotten by the outside world'. A new dynasty, comprising of six kings and one queen, came to power in the Christian highlands, based in the Agew district of La ...
Jimma
HISTORIC JIMMA: 1860 Temperature: 29 deg C Avg. Rainfall: 1600mm each year Jimma was one of the strongest of the five autonomous Gibe kingdoms of the Oromo people. Like all other kingdoms of the surrounding peoples, Jimma was also incorporated into th ...
Axum
The Axumite Kingdom Rising to importance around the time of the birth of Christ, the time of the earliest historical records, Axum was the capital of the far reaching Axumite Kingdom, a great commercial civilization that traded with distant lands and ...
Gonder
VAL GONDER: 1632 - 1850 AD Ethiopia went through a long period without a fixed capital. When it was time to have one, there was no better settlement than the one at Gonder. Besides being the largest settlement in the country, it was an important admi ...
Addisababa
dis Ababa enjoys an ideal climate with brilliant African sunshine and clean cool air at an altitude of 2200-2600 meters, making it the third highest capital of the world. A CITY OF CONTRAST Addis Ababa is a city of modern offices and apartment bl ...
