Ethiopian Airlines has launched the first regular scheduled Airbus A350-XWB service from the UK.
This is the latest and most technologically advanced model from Airbus, and on Sunday Ethiopian began using it on its daily Heathrow-Addis Ababa route.
Top five Reasons to visit Ethiopia:
- The rock churches of Lalibela are hewn from solid stone and represent the flourishing of 12th-century Ethiopian Christianity.
- Also in the north of the country, the Danakil Depression is one of the hottest places on Earth – a desert region containing a geological kaleidoscope of fantastically coloured rocks and deposits.
- The Simien Mountains National Park is a plateau rift by deep valleys and craggy pinnacles, covering 220 square kilometres of northern Ethiopia. It’s has outstanding trekking and rambling.
- In the south, Lake Langano has several eco lodges on its shores, and the ancient hilltop city of Harar is famous for its idiosyncratic relationship with wild hyenas – it encourages the beasts to roam the streets at night as a form of garbage disposal.
- The capital Addis Ababa sits in rolling hills 2,355m above sea level and is a safe and atmospheric city of three million people. Sights include the skeleton of Lucy (the world’s oldest yet discovered skeleton estimated to be 3.2 million years old), the palace of former emperor Haile Selassie, and the Merkato – an astonishing array of stalls that’s reputed to be the largest in Africa. The city also has a distinctive food and jazz scene.
Read more: Five reasons to visit Ethiopia – on the world’s newest passenger plane
Source: The Telegraph