The bizarre mountain landscape of Tigray is characterised and has been formed and shaped by the sheer tectonic forces of the Rift Valley, that starts in the neighbouring Danakil depression in the east. Coming from this starting point, the Horn of Africa, and East Africa in general are breaking off the continent. West to the […]
Schlagwort: Africa
Aksum
Aksum is located at 2.130 m above sea level in the far north of Ethiopia near the border to Eritrea, and it is the oldest continuously inhabited place south of the Sahara Desert with today around 60.000 inhabitants. That the town has been the capital of the empire of Queen Sheba as early as 1.000 […]
Gondar – City of palaces – Die Stadt der Paläste
The important imperial city of the 17th and the 18th centuries, Gondar, is a nice mixture of a modern-day town and its historic remains, among them the most famous palace area Gemp. Today’s Gondar has 600.000+ inhabitants and is located at 2.300 m in altitude near the Simien mountains and northeast of Lake Tana. Because […]
Tis Issat – Die Fälle des Blauen Nils – Blue Nile Falls
Southeast of Bahir Dar, the 400 m wide water masses of the Blue Nile plunge down a 45 m high cliff. Due to the construction of a waterpower station upstream, there are strong fluctuations of the water level, even though the power station became less important after the construction of another one at Beles river. […]
Addis Ababa
Today, Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa is one of the fastest growing cities on earth with around 4.5 to 5 Million inhabitants. It has been Emperor Menelik II who had founded Addis Ababa in 1889 and made it the capital by moving from nearby Entoto hill down to the plains. But it was only after the […]
