Traveling can be tricky; containing your belongings into one or two suitcases, making sure you haven’t forgotten any essentials. Coming to Ethiopia can even be an even harder task, considering the limitations on availability of essential items. If you’re in Addis, permanently or temporarily, and you’re in the market for some things, we have compiled a list of the major shopping areas to make things easier for you.
‘ODD’ THINGS ETHIOPIAN
The Ethiopian calendar based on a different calculation of Jesus’ birth year compared to the Gregorian calendar, making it around seven years behind, and it has 13 months in a year with 12 months of 30 days and a final “extra” month with 5 or 6 days, depending on if it’s a leap year
LOCAL FOOD AND DRINKS CULTURE IN TIGRAY
Bases its astonishing rock churches and mountains, Tigray also offers many remarkable and diverse cultural adventures to experience. If you are looking for doing some off-the-beaten-path activities during your stay in Tigray, here are some culinary adventures you should definitely try:
THREE SPECTACULAR VIEWPOINTS OF ADDIS ABABA
Once a friend who visited Addis Ababa after a long stay of abroad told me that this city is more attractive viewed from the top. I was curious by his remark and went around all the possible viewpoints of the City. After a while, I concur 100% with his selection of the top three viewpoints.
GHERALTA ROCK-HEWN CHURCHES AND MOUNTAINS
These churches are more than one thousand years old, carved into the soul of Gheralta Mountains. It’s said that when lovers arrive at this churches their souls would speak to one another in a language that no one knows but feels, a language called love. Aside from the “lovers” thing, a dying soul would revive with a single gasp of the wind. Anyone who is fond of climbing steep long rock walls and skirting cliff would kill to be there!
“THE GATEWAY TO HELL”— THE DANAKIL DEPRESSION
The overwhelmingly beautiful and heart-consuming place in the face of the earth—Danakil has been regarded to be the cruelest and rudest place on the face of the earth because of its inhospitable geographic climatic conditions, however, staggeringly this place is actually a home to the natives—to the Afar people