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What do you Know about Ethiopia?

Ethiopia is a land of wonder and enchantment, a country with one of the richest histories on the African continent, a land of contrasts and surprises, of remote and wild places, home to cultured and friendly people who are descended from some of the world's oldest civilizations. Read more...

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Ethiopia- US Tourism Promotion Event at Washington D.C,

A "Business to Business Meeting" designed at bolstering Ethiopian Tourism Market in the US and engage American Tour Operators with their Ethiopian counter-parts was held at the premises of the Ethiopian Embassy at Washington DC IN April 9, 2013. The event is seen as an ideal venue for creating the necessary enabling conducive environment for networking of enterprises deployed in the hospitality industries of the two countries, according to the press release.
Mrs. Tadelech Dalecho, Ethiopian State Minister of Culture and Tourism, who was on hand to declare this auspicious event opened, stated in her speech that Ethiopia is endowed with diverse tourist attractions and great varieties of land, climate, people, cultures and languages.

The State Minister said on the occasion that Ethiopia is the cradle of humanity where pre-historic tools dated as far back as six million years ago were unearthed with Lucy (who is locally known as "Dinknesh"), as the most remarkable of the numerous discoveries. Mrs Tadelech related that the 3.2 million years old skeleton of a female hominid i.e. Lucy that made its maiden sojourn to the US as the first "oldest visitor" to America has connected the American people with their human ancient ancestors.Read more...,

Ethiopian Boeing 787 Dreamliner Resume Service

Ethiopian Airlines is pleased to announce that it will resume Boeing 787 Dreamliner service on Saturday, 27 April 2013 with a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. Ethiopian Airlines CEO, Tewolde Gebremariam and Randy Tinseth, Boeing Vice President of Marketing, will be on board this flight, which will be the first commercial flight in the world since the grounding of the Dreamliners. Ethiopian grounded its four Dreamliners on 17 January 2013, following the directive issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority due incidents related to battery issues on Japanese carriers.

Last week, the US FAA certified solutions proposed by Boeing to the battery issues allowing Ethiopian and other operators to retrofit the new and additional systems and resume flights with the Dreamliners. Boeing and Ethiopian engineers are implementing solutions certified by the US FAA. Following the successful completion of the retrofitting work on the airplane and smooth test flight by Ethiopian pilots, the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority approved the commercial flight resumption of Ethiopian Dreamliner. These solutions will be done on all four of Ethiopian Dreamliners one after the other."We are excited to resume our service with the Dreamliners. The Dreamliner is the most advanced commercial aircraft, which has enabled passengers travelling with Ethiopian to enjoy the ultimate on-board comfort. During the five months our four Dreamliners were in service, we were very pleased with their performance, and the feedback from our passengers has been overwhelmingly positive. I look forward to being on-board the first passenger flight on Saturday, 27 April." said Tewolde Gebremariam CEO of Ethiopian.

Ethiopia's World Heritage Sites

	The small town of Lalibeia in northern Ethiopia is famous for its 11 rock hewn churches daring back to the 12th century. Read More ...

	The historic walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia was a major trading crossroads and a centre of Islamic learning. Read More ...

	The oldest of Gondar’s many imperial structures is the impressive 17th century palace of Emperor Fasilidas. Many other fascinating historical buildings Read More ...

	Axum is renowned for the world’s tallest monoliths, or obelisks, which experts say were erected to mark Read More ...

	The dramatic mountainous landscape of the Simien National Park in northern Ethiopia is home to some of the rarest animals on earth. Read More ...

	Lower Omo is another haven of prehistoric finds which have been essential in the study of human evolution. Read More ...

	Tiya Stones are natural stones located in the southern part of Ethiopia. Read More ...

	One of the world's most famous hominid fossils, known as Lucy,was discovered in the Lower Awash Valley. Read More ...

	Konso Cultural Landscape is a 55 square km arid property of stone walled terraces and fortified settlements in the Konso highlands of Ethiopia. Read More ...