A new tourism project in the northern Ethiopia highlands brings spectacular scenery and a warm welcome, where ‘your holiday can become the source of someone else’s dreams’We arrive at sunset. “It’s true,” says Suleiman, “They will get 30 birr a day, about $1, for each visitor that comes. There’s an almost desperate urge among the people to be connected to the world, and to see some change. For transporting my bag for the entire trek he is getting 800 birr: around five months’ money in less than a week. Flights were provided by Ethiopian Airlines, which flies daily from Heathrow to Gondar via Addis Ababa from £665 return

Source: Ethiopian News January 26, 2019 12:00 UTC