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Tourist Attractions to Visit in Ethiopia 25 Best Tourist Attractions to Visit in Ethiopia 1. Arba Minch This is a town and separate district in southern Ethiopia; the initial common name for this town was Ganta Garo. Situated in the Gamo Gofa Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region nearly 500 kilometers south of Addis Ababa, at a height of 1285 meters above sea level. It is the biggest city in Gamo Gofa Zone and the second city in SNNPR behind Awassa. It is encompassed by Arba Minch Zuria woreda and the most resourceful zone in southern region including two largest Lakes, over 40 springs, National Nech sar park, crocodile bazaar, some fruits incorporating banana, apple, mango, avocado, etc. 2. Lake Chamo (Crocodile Market) If you’re assuming a vibrant market stuffed with crocodile goods made for travelers, you couldn’t be more mistaken. Nothing is for trading and the crocodiles are alive and fine at Lake Chamo. Enjoy an afternoon or an early...
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In Uganda, Wazi Vision changes lives through innovative eye care

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Wazi Vision conducts many eye test camps in hard-to-reach areas around Uganda. The free services cater to those who ordinarily wouldn’t afford to see an ophthalmologist, yet vision problems are common in the country. And with a cross-subsidization model, those who are diagnosed with refractive errors get eyewear they manufacture, at affordable prices. Jane Nabbosais a businesswoman, benefitted from the service: "Since I got these spectacles, I can read. Then I wasn’t able because I couldn’t see small letters but now I can read the bible, I can read everything". At the workshop in Kampala, the eye clinic is ever open since the needs are huge: "We know that as we grow there is a reading tendency and most people have been cut off from reading because of presbyopia in most cases and we have encountered a lot of those cases", ophthalmologistFrank Bogere explains. When a team of innovators started Wazi in 2016, they wanted to create accessibility to eyewear for margi...
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Ethiopia the oldest countries in Africa

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Ethiopia the oldest countries in Africa,[1] the Ethiopian civilization emergence dates back over thousands of years. Due to migration and imperial expansion, it grew to include many other primarily Afro-Asiatic-speaking communities, including Amhara, Oromos, Somalis, Tigray, Afars, Sidama, Gurage, Agaw and Harari, among others. One of the early kingdoms to rise to power in the territory was the kingdom of D'mt in the 10th century BC, which established its capital at Yeha. In the first century AD the Aksumite Kingdom rose to power in the Tigray Region with its capital at Aksum and grew into a major power on the Red Sea, subjugating Yemen and Meroe. In the early fourth century, during the reign of Ezana, Christianity was declared the state religion. Ezana's reign is also when the Aksumites first identified themselves as "Ethiopians", and not long after, Philostorgius became the first foreign author to call the Aksumites Ethiopians.[2] The Aksumite empire fell into dec...
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The Ethiopian Navy The Ethiopian Navy, known as the Imperial Ethiopian Navy until 1974, was a branch of the Ethiopian National Defense Force founded in 1955. It was disestablished in 1996 after the independence of Eritrea in 1991 left Ethiopia landlocked. Founding of the navy Ethiopia acquired a coastline and ports on the Red Sea in 1950 when the United Nations decided to federate Eritrea with Ethiopia. In 1955, the Imperial Ethiopian Navy was founded,[1] and its first (and primary) base — the Haile Selassie I Naval Base — was established at Massawa in 1956. The navy took delivery of its first ship in 1957.[1] By the early 1960s workshops and other facilities were under construction at Massawa to give it complete naval base capabilities. Organization In 1958, the navy became a fully independent service, organized as one of the three Ethiopian armed services – alongside the Ethiopian Army and Ethiopian Air Force – under the overall command of the Chief of Staff of the Imperia...
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