Ethiopia’s Church Forests
Kaushik Patowary
May 22, 2019
Ethiopia is almost completely depleted of its forest cover. In the early 1900s, nearly forty-five percent of the country was covered by fore...
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Ethiopia’s Churches In The Sky
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 19, 2017
The ancient Kingdom of Axum, now a part of Ethiopia, was one of the first nations in the world to adopt Christianity. The religion took stro...
The Birth Of An Ocean: The Afar Rift of Ethiopia
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 8, 2016
In the remote Afar depression in northern Ethiopia, the African Continent is slowly splitting apart and a new ocean is forming. Normally geo...
Lava Lakes: The Exposed Guts of Volcanoes
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2016
Most volcanoes have a deep inner chamber of molten rocks, but this chamber is typically capped shut by cooled, solid rock. But sometimes the...
Ethiopian Tribe Recycles Modern World’s Discards Into Fashion Accessories
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 28, 2015
The Daasanach are a semi-nomadic tribe numbering approximately 50,000 individuals who live in the Omo Valley in southern Ethiopia. In the pa...
Travertine Chimneys of Lake Abbe
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 27, 2014
Lake Abbe is a salt lake, the largest and last of a chain of six connected lakes on the Ethiopia-Djibouti border. The lake lies on a basin c...
Meskel Square, A Chaotic Intersection With No Traffic Lights
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 27, 2014
Chaotic doesn’t even begin to describe how crazy the Meskel Square intersection is, in the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Without a single...
The Rock Churches of Lalibela
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 24, 2014
In the remote town of Lalibela, perched on the mountains in the heart of Ethiopia, some 645 km from Addis Ababa, are eleven medieval monolit...
10 Interesting National Parks of Africa
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 18, 2014
When you think of Africa, you think of wild animals. Africa contains some of the world’s most dense population of wildlife and the richest d...
Lake Turkana, World’s Largest Desert Lake
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 6, 2013
Standing on the shore of Lake Turkana, you could be almost forgiven for believing you are at the seaside. There is swell in the waters, a sa...
