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Guide to Ethiopia

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The land of Ethiopia provides an extraordinary variety of landscapes, with its huge and lofty central plateau area contrasting totally with its hot deserts and Rift Valley lakes. Five times the size of Great Britain, Ethiopia is home to nearly a hundred different tribes, each with its own language and its own highly colourful and developed culture. Some of these Ethiopian tribes live as simply and naturally as any peoples on this earth.

Yet our Guide to Ethiopia tells of modern and developing cities such as Addis Ababa, the capital, and Mekelle in the north of the country, as well as myriad simple towns and villages spread all over this often inaccessible land. While water is frequently in short supply, major and impressive rivers cut through the Ethiopian countryside, cascading far below ranges of towering mountains with challenging individual peaks such as Ras Dashen in the north.

Here you can also read of Ethiopia's immediate neighbours in this now land-locked land where local border disputes are commonplace. On this continent of tribal and cultural variety, the country borders give frequent rise to strife and violence, where often impoverished areas of land are disputed by people who have little but there own survival to occupy their waking hours.

Ethiopia is what it is because of its geographical diversity and cultural variety. Read on to whet your appetite for further and more extensive reading elsewhere.

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