Ethiopia

Philip Briggs

• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781784775575
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

This new, fully-updated 8th edition of Bradt's Ethiopia remains the most comprehensive, detailed and thorough guide available, particularly known for its strength of background information, coverage of off-the-beaten track areas, and in-depth details of hotels and other tourist facilities. It also contains far more maps than other guides. Bradt's Ethiopia is also the longest serving English-language guidebook dedicated to the country, with a history of 25 years of research and expertise.

This new edition has been updated by the original author, Philip Briggs, the world's foremost writer of Africa travel guides. Recent years have seen a notable rise in domestic and foreign private investment in the development of new hotels and national parks; this new edition includes all the most up-to-date details reflecting all the most recent changes, from development of tourist facilities to improved road infrastructure.

Bradt's Ethiopia is ideal for visitors of all ages no matter the interest, whether travelling independently or part of an organised group, from adventurous and active travellers interested in cultural, historical, and wildlife sightseeing to international conference visitors, spa tourists and community-based visitors looking for activities such as trekking and horse-riding in the Rift Valley and Simien Mountains. Wildlife and birding visitors who come for Ethiopia's wealth of endemics are also catered for and this new edition includes a dedicated full-colour chapter on wildlife and birds.

Of all the African nations, Ethiopia is most prone to misconceptions. The 1985 famine and the cracked barren earth of the Danakil Depression are not images quickly forgotten. But this fully updated guide refocuses the lens to reveal an ancient country that continues to surpass all expectations: from the ancient Judaic cultures of the fertile highlands to the Animist people of the South Omo Valley, from the Afroalpine moorland of the Bale Mountains National Park to the thundering Blue Nile Falls. This book also leads you further off the beaten track, so travellers can see more of this expansive and beautiful land, believed to be the cradle of humankind.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Colour Map
• List of Maps
• Photos – Don’t Miss
• Introduction
• At a Glance
• Part One General Information
• Chapter 1 Background Information
• Chapter 2 Wildlife Guide
• Chapter 3 Practical Information
• Part Two Addis Ababa And Surrounds
• Chapter 4 Addis Ababa
• Chapter 5 Around Addis Ababa
• Part Three Northern Ethiopia
• Chapter 6 Bahir Dar and Lake Tana
• Chapter 7 Gondar and the Simien Mountains
• Chapter 8 Axum and Surrounds
• Chapter 9 Northeast Tigray and Its Rock-Hewn Churches
• Chapter 10 Mekele and the Danakil
• Chapter 11 Lalibela and Surrounds
• Chapter 12 Dessie and Southeast Amhara
• Part Four Southern Ethiopia
• Chapter 13 Awash National Park, Harar and Eastern Highlands
• Chapter 14 Bale and the Southeast
• Chapter 15 The Southern Rift Valley Lakes
• Chapter 16 Konso and South Omo
• Chapter 17 Southwest Ethiopia
• Appendix 1 Language
• Appendix 2 Glossaries
• Appendix 3 Further Information
• Index
• Author
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Backcover