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The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are located close to Ethiopia’s northern ...

The Stele site of Tiya in Gurage Zone is registered in the UNESCO world heritage...

The legend of Lalibela Ever since the first European to describe the rock church...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the fortress-city of Fasil Ghebbi was the reside...

Follow the road east from Goba for 120 kilometres (74 miles), through a low vall...

The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the count...

The festival of Meskel is second in importance only to Timkat and has been celebrated in the country for over 1,600 years...

This is the greatest festival of the year, falling on 19 January, just two weeks after the Ethiopian Christmas. It is actually a three-day affair, beginning on the Eve of Timkat with dramatic and colourful processions...

Christmas, called Lidet, is not the primary religious and secular festival that it has become in Western countries...

On Easter eve people celebrate and go to church with candles which are lit during a colourful Easter Mass service which begins at about midnight Ethiopian time...