Éthiopie

Rock-hewn churches, royal castles, walled cities and one of the world’s oldest coffee cultures — Ethiopia holds more than three thousand years of continuous history.

Languages: amharique, anglais, oromo, tigrigna
Local currency: ETB
Time zone: heure normale d’Afrique de l’Est

Données d’exemple

Culture at a glance

Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
The coffee ceremony
Ge’ez script and calendar
Timket and Meskel festivals

Cities

Addis Ababa
Africa’s diplomatic capital: one of the continent’s largest open markets, museums, jazz clubs and hillside churches.
Gondar
The “Camelot of Africa”: a royal enclosure of castles, painted churches and a bathing palace still used for Timket.
Lalibela
A mountain town of eleven medieval churches carved downward into living rock, still in daily use by priests and pilgrims.
Axum
Towering granite stelae, royal tombs and the church said to guard the Ark of the Covenant.
Bahir Dar
Palm-lined lakeside city on Lake Tana, gateway to island monasteries and the Blue Nile Falls.
Harar
A walled city of 368 alleys, painted houses, shrines and a nightly tradition of feeding wild hyenas.
Konso
Dry-stone terraced hills and walled hilltop villages shaped by more than four centuries of community farming.