Missionary Spotlight
The Ethiopian Embassy describes Ethiopia
Riven by many deep and stupendous gorges; crowned by high and magnificent mountains; necklaced by a chain of lakes; watered by majestic rivers; studded with burning deserts and great escarpments that plunge down from its highlands; Ethiopia remains a land of incomparable beauty.
But it is not simply the sheer scale of its physical beauty which characterises this land, where the Blue Nile has carved one of the world’s greatest and most awesome gorges.
Its ancient and medieval monuments, its proud and colourful cultures, and its varied and often unique wildlife set it apart from all else.
Ethiopia, dissected through its middle by the scar of the Great Rift Valley, is as old as time itself. It is a land claiming a history that goes back to the Old Testament.
It is the land of Sheba, and of Axum and Lalibela, of towering obelisks … that was Christian before much of Europe and yet unknown to Europe for 1000 years or more …
From the vast spread of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile River in the northern highlands; through the relics of Axum, seat of Sheba’s legendary empire; down along the scorching inferno of the Danakil Depression, one of the world’s lowest points; and high amid the wonders of the Simien and Bale Mountains; to the untouched, game-filled wildernesses of the remote southern grasslands. Welcome to Ethiopia!
