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Ethiopia

3 places
Ethiopia keeps its own time. Its calendar runs seven or eight years behind the rest of the world, with thirteen months, and the clock starts the day at dawn, so noon is six o'clock. Never colonised, it has its own ancient script and Orthodox church, gave the world coffee, and holds 'Lucy,' one of…

The Historic North2 places

LalibelaPoint · ●●●●●A cluster of medieval churches carved downward out of solid rock, entire buildings hewn from the living stone below…
The Simien MountainsNature · ●●●●○A jagged wall of peaks and plunging escarpments in the Ethiopian highlands, often called the roof of Africa, where…

The Danakil & the East1 place

The Danakil DepressionNature · ●●●●●One of the hottest and lowest places on earth, an alien landscape of neon-yellow sulphur springs, salt flats worked by…