Ethiopian Adventure Tours - Glen Eden
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Join one of our guided tours to Ethiopia with Ethiopian Adventure Tours. Take an African holiday and travel a personalised, richly historical journey through Ethiopia.
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The oldest hominid fossils
The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered were found in Ethiopia and date from 4.2 m years ago. The more well-known fossil remains of “Lucy” date from 3.2 m years ago.
Ethiopian Calendar
Ethiopia’s calendar has 12 months of 30 days and a thirteenth month of 5 – 6 depending on whether it’s a leap year. In the western Gregorian calendar the Ethiopian Julian calendar has New Year’s Day on 11 September or the 12th if it's a leap year.
The Ethiopian Julian calendar runs about 7 years later than the Gregorian. For example, when most of the world celebrated the new millennium on 1 January 2000 it was still 1993 according to the Ethiopian Julian calendar.
Ethiopia time of the clock is stated at 6 hour’s difference to other countries. For example, if you ask an Ethiopian the time at 3 pm, he/ she will tell you it’s 9 o’clock.
Ethiopian Emperor and populations
The last emperor Haile Selassie who was crowned in 1930 was called Ras Tafari Mekonnen. ‘Ras’ is a title like Lord or Duke and Tafari Mekonnen was his name. The term ‘Rastafarian’ comes from this. Ras Tafari changed his name to Haile Selassie when he became emperor.
Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by a Marxist military coup in 1974 and was the last in a line of 253 monarchs.
The population of Ethiopia is just over 101 m (2016) comprising over 80 different ethnic groups and 86 currently spoken languages.
The many landscapes of Ethiopia
The Blue Nile river starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia and accounts for about 80% of the water flowing through to the Nile outlet in the Mediterranean.
Ethiopia is the most mountainous country in Africa.
There are 12 major rivers flowing from the high rainfall areas of the mountainous north and east known as the Roof of Africa. These rivers bring much needed moisture to many dry areas in the region. For example, the Wabe Shabelle starts in the Bale Mountains and flows south to the Indian ocean Somali coast and the Blue Nile flows north through the deserts of Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean sea.
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| Address : | Ethiopian Adventure Tours 65 Woodglen Road, Glen Eden, Auckland 0602, New Zealand |
| Phone : | ๐ +88 |
| Postal code : | 0602 |
| Website : | http://www.ethiopianadventuretours.com/ |
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