Culture in Ethiopia

Africa's diplomatic capital, a high-altitude city of grand museums, buzzing coffee culture and the continent's biggest market.

A medieval pilgrimage town of eleven churches hewn straight down into volcanic rock, a true wonder of the Christian world.

The 'Camelot of Africa', a former imperial capital crowned by a walled royal compound of seventeenth-century castles.

A palm-lined city on Lake Tana, the launch point for boat trips to island monasteries and the thundering Blue Nile Falls.

The ancient seat of the Aksumite Empire, where towering granite obelisks mark one of Africa's oldest great civilisations.