Ethiopia: the land of thousand smiles

   
 

Ethiopia is a land of wonder and enchantments, a country with one of the richest histories on the African continent, a land of contrasts and surprises, of remote and wild places, home to cultured and friendly people who are descended from some of the world’s oldest civilizations. This is the land of the fabled Queen of Sheba, home of the Ark of the Covenant, the birthplace of coffee. Lucy the world’s oldest known almost-complete hominid skeleton, more than three million years old, was discovered here.