Ethiopia is a country with deep connections with Jerusalem, because of the Judaism and Ethiopian Christianity which combines belief in the Holy Trinity with myths and symbols of the Old Testament. In some Ethiopian rites is still used the 2, 500-year-old language.

These days half of Ethiopia’s 70 million people are Orthodox Christians. For decades, however the access to historic sites of Ethiopia had been banned in general because of the war and the vagaries of politics. Over the next seven years mostly humanitarian aid workers, diplomats and journalists trickled into Ethiopia.

In Ethiopia the capital income is $120 a year. The country was among the first societies in sub-Saharan Africa to develop a written language.

Under President Zinawi,who has begun to show some dictatorial tendencies of his own, significant development has come to Ethiopia including cell phones, hotels, Internet cafes, reliable electricity and asphalt-roads things that were unheard of in the outlying provinces a decade ago.

And it is now possible to travel across the country to some extent of comfort.