Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains: great trekking, unusual wildlife, and a summit

December 7, 2011 Opinion and advice amharas, ethiopia, ethiopian wolf, gelada baboon, geology, giant lobelia, lammergeier, ras dashen, rosita forbes, simien mountains, thick-billed raven, trekking, walia ibex, wildlife, wildlife photographer of the year 4 Comments

Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains: great trekking, unusual wildlife, and a summit

“The most marvellous of all Abyssinian landscapes opened before us, as we looked across a gorge that was clouded amethyst to the peaks of Simyen.” Rosita Forbes, From Red Sea to Blue Nile – A Thousand Miles of Ethiopia (1925)