| Northern & Eastern Historic circuits |
 Ethiopia, the ancient Christian kingdom, richest historical and cultural heritage in sub-Saharan Africa, is a unique experience for travelers, different from anywhere else. Its 3000 years old history, interwoven with timeless legends, religious practices, festivals, fascinating historical monuments, indigenous Arts, unspoiled multi ethnographic culture and way of living, remarkable and endless mountain ranges, diversified climate, fauna and flora have all attracted and captivated the imagination of visitors throughout ages.The cradle of human kind: Ethiopia is part of The Great East African Rift Valley & has strong claims as the cradle of human beings and their ancestor Hominids. In 1974 an almost complete hominid skeleton was discovered by Donald Johnson in Hadar in the Danakil region of northern Ethiopian Rift Valley. The skeletal remain named LUCY (named Lucy in the sky with diamonds was playing in camps shortly after the discovery) aged a 3.5 million years old australopithecine of a new species. This and other archeological findings of paleontologists make Ethiopia one of the most likely candidates for the cradle of humankind other than Kenya and Tanzania. Pre history: important pre historic remains include recently discovered late Stone Age paintings and engravings as well as evidence of very early cereal cultivation. Some cereals such as Teff are believed to be indigenous while wheat and barley may have come down from Egypt. The most researched part of Ethiopia in pre historic terms is what are now the province of Tigrai and the newly independent country of Eritrea. Archeological and pale ontological studies confirmed that by 1000BC northern Ethiopia supported an agricultural and an urbanized civilization of some magnitude. One of the major pre Axumite sites in northern Ethiopia is Yeha where there is a large a well preserved stone temple estimated to be at least 2500 years old.
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