Wrongly identified as the source of the Blue Nile Lake Tana is one of the two lakes of Ethiopia with historical significance, with thirty-seven islands, twenty of which are home to churches and monasteries.

Referred to by some as "The Camelot of Africa", Gondar is singularly famous for the many castles and other imperial structures built by Fasiladas (1632-1667) and several of his successors.

Undoubtedly Lalibela is site of one of the Wonders (the Eighth, you may call it) of the World, Lalibela owes its fame to the incredibly fashioned Lalibela churches, all carved out of red solid volcanic rock by carpenters, with the help, during the night, of angels, as legend has it. Such belief may be scoffed at, but let us accept it as a metaphor for the awe with which they strike the beholder, a site which today is enlisted as a world heritage site by Unesco.

Ethiopian legend has it that the famous Church of St. Mary of Zion in Axum is the repository of the Ark of the Covenant. Axum is equally, if not more, mysterious for the seven monolithic stelae fashioned out solid granite. The biggest monolith (and the largest in the world), measures over thirty-three meters (108 feet) and weighing about 500 tons.