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DISCOVER ETHIOPIA BY HELICOPTER

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There is so much to discover in Ethiopia and we are back exploring its incredible landscape. From the wilderness mountains of Bale and Simien, to rural towns with immense culture in Lalibela. To find out more please email safaris@tropicairkenya.com

 

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ADDIS ABABA
 

Addis Ababa is the fourth largest city in Africa - a melting pot of cultures and a bizarre combination of past and present - Italian Fascist buildings sit alongside luxurious high rise hotels; priests in medieval robes mix with African bureaucrats and wandering ministers singing songs that are centuries old.

BALE MOUNTAINS

The Bale Mountains National Park is 2,200 square kms, it has an astounding range of habitats and a multitude of rare species, many endemic to Ethiopia and some found only within the park. A pristine wilderness with the world’s largest expanse of Afro-alpine moorland.

LALIBELA

The market town of Lalibela is set in the mountainous region of Amhara at 2,200 meters, where 80% of the people are engaged in subsistence farming.

St George is Ethiopia’s holiest city & center of pilgrimage, with 12th & 13th century monolithic churches. 

Intended to be a ‘new Jerusalem’ following the capture of the Holy lands by Muslims, the rural town of Lalibela is an ancient world with medieval rock-hewn churches, hidden crypts and dimly lit passageways, carved from solid granite, a millennia ago. Today, it is not only the physical structures that remain frozen in time, but a place of pilgrimage for many of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians.