1. Bahir Dar
(Cities/Bahir dar)

... a cotton factory, a polytechnic institute, built by the then USSR, and a pedagogy institute sponsored by UNESCO, now upgraded to the status of a university. At least two main attractions are a mus...

2. Lalibela
(History/Heritage)

...r the awe with which they strike the beholder, a site which today is enlisted as a world heritage site by Unesco. The churches can be divided into two main groups: one to the south an...

3. Axum
(History/Heritage)

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 fashio

4. Lalibela
(History/Ancient)

...s and monasteries sculpted out of solid volcanic rock which today is enlisted as a world heritage site by Unesco. About 1137 a new dynasty came to power in the Christian highlands. ...