Ethiopia
Ethiopia travel guide: expert travel tips and holiday advice on everything from Addis Ababa hotels and restaurants to ancient rock-hewn churches and archaeological sites. Also included are natural history and wildlife, Bale Mountains National Park, South Omo, Tigray, Lake Tana and Lalibela churches, Axum's stelae, Gondar and the Danakil Depression. 
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Ethiopia
Ethiopia travel guide: expert travel tips and holiday advice on everything from Addis Ababa hotels and restaurants to ancient rock-hewn churches and archaeological sites. Also included are natural history and wildlife, Bale Mountains National Park, South Omo, Tigray, Lake Tana and Lalibela churches, Axum's stelae, Gondar and the Danakil Depression. 
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Ethiopia

by Philip Briggs
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Ethiopia

by Philip Briggs

Overview

Ethiopia travel guide: expert travel tips and holiday advice on everything from Addis Ababa hotels and restaurants to ancient rock-hewn churches and archaeological sites. Also included are natural history and wildlife, Bale Mountains National Park, South Omo, Tigray, Lake Tana and Lalibela churches, Axum's stelae, Gondar and the Danakil Depression. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781784770990
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Publication date: 02/07/2019
Edition description: 8th edition
Pages: 672
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Philip Briggs has been exploring the highways, byways and backwaters of Africa since 1986, when he spent several months backpacking on a shoestring from Nairobi to Cape Town. He first visited Ethiopia in 1994 to research the Bradt Guide and has since revisited it several times to update more recent editions. He has visited more than two dozen African countries in total and written about most of them for specialist travel and wildlife magazines including Africa Birds & Birding, Africa Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Travel Africa and Wanderlust. He still spends at least four months on the road every year, usually accompanied by his wife, the travel photographer Ariadne Van Zandbergen, and spends his rest of the time battering away at a keyboard at home in South Africa.

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Chat

I don’t know where else to put this, and you do eat it! Chat is a mildly stimulating leaf that is traditionally popular with Muslims (who are forbidden from drinking alcohol) and is now chewed throughout Ethiopia. For readers who have visited Kenya, it is pretty similar to miraa, though I gather not exactly the same plant (and you see few Ethiopians with the manically glazed eyes I’ve come to associate with miraa-ed out Kenyans).

Chat ceremony is generally a social thing. The idea is for a few people to gather in a room, where you each grab a few branches, pick off the greenest leaves, pop them into your mouth one by one, mush it all up into a cud, chew for a few hours and then, with whatever strength is left in your jaw, spit out the remaining pulp. Ideally, you devote the afternoon to group mastication, then go for a few beers to neutralise the sleeplessness that the leaves induce. The leaves taste very bitter so a spoonful of sugar helps it all go down. Now, I must admit that to me the effort involved in spending the afternoon chewing myself into foul-tasting oblivion holds little appeal – especially when all sorts of cheap, pleasant-tasting, no-effort-required alcoholic substances are available in Ethiopia – but chat has its devotees among travellers. It must be said that not everybody will spend their spare Ethiopian afternoons dashing about towns, plotting maps and checking out hotel rooms. As an Ethiopian friend says: ‘chat ceremony is good for killing time’.

Table of Contents

Introduction 


PART ONE GENERAL INFORMATION 
Chapter 1 Background Information
Geography and climate, History, Government and politics, Economy, Population, Language, Religion, Education, Music
Chapter 2 Wildlife Guide 
Mammals, Reptiles, Birds
Chapter 3 Practical Information
When to visit, Suggested itineraries, Tour operators, Tourist information, Red tape, Getting there and away, What to take, Money, Budgeting, Getting around, Accommodation, Eating and drinking, Public holidays and festival days, Shopping, Nightlife, Media and communications, Local interaction, Responsible tourism, Health, Safety, Women travellers, LGBT travellers


PART TWO ADDIS ABABA AND SURROUNDS
Chapter 4 Addis Ababa
History, Getting there and away, Orientation, Maps, Getting around, Where to stay, Where to eat and drink, Nightlife, Cinema, Shopping, Other practicalities, What to see and do
Chapter 5 Around Addis Ababa
East towards Bishoftu and Adama, South towards Butajira and Hosanna, West towards Ambo and Mount Wenchi, North towards Debre Libanos and the Blue Nile Gorge


PART THREE NORTHERN ETHIOPIA
Chapter 6 Bahir Dar and Lake Tana
Dejen to Bahir Dar via Debre Markos, Dejen to Bahir Dar via Mota, Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Bahir Dar, Monasteries of southern Lake Tana, Bahir Dar to Gondar by road, Gorgora and northern Lake Tana
Chapter 7 Gondar and the Simien Mountains
Gondar, Debark, Simien Mountains National Park
Chapter 8 Axum and Surrounds
Shire Inda Selassie, Axum, Adwa and surrounds
Chapter 9 Northeast Tigray and Its Rock-Hewn Churches
Adigrat, Rock-hewn churches between Adigrat and Wukro, Wukro and surrounds, Hawzen and the Gheralta Escarpment, Abiy Addi and the Tembien
Chapter 10 Mekele and the Danakil
Mekele, Danakil, The Djibouti–Awash road 
Chapter 11 Lalibela and Surrounds
Through routes to Lalibela from Tigray and Western Amhara, Lalibela, Around Lalibela
Chapter 12 Dessie and Southeast Amhara
Hayk, Dessie, Gishen Debre Kerbe, Makdala Hill, Kombolcha, Bati, Dessie to Addis Ababa via Debre Berhan, The Dessie–Gundewein road


PART FOUR SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA
Chapter 13 Awash National Park, Harar and Eastern Highlands
Awash National Park, Awash to Harar and Dire Dawa by road, Dire Dawa, Harar, Jijiga 
Chapter 14 Bale and the Southeast
Arsi Zone, Dodola and the Adaba-Dodola IFMP, Bale Mountains and surrounds, Southeastern birding route, South towards Moyale
Chapter 15 The Southern Rift Valley Lakes
Ziway, Lakes Langano, Abijatta and Shalla, Lephis Forest, Shashemene, Hawassa, Sodo, Arba Minch and surrounds
Chapter 16 Konso and South Omo
Travel practicalities, Karat-Konso, Along the Konso–Jinka road, Jinka, Hamar Country: Dimeka, Turmi and Arbore, Omorate and the Omo River
Chapter 17 Southwest Ethiopia
The Western Highlands, Gambella Region 


Appendix 1 Language
Appendix 2 Glossaries
General glossary, Glossary of key historical and legendary figures in Ethiopia
Appendix 3 Further Information
Index



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