Where else in the world can you see hundreds of gelada monkeys, 900-year-old rock-hewn Christian churches, ceilings painted with black angels and stars, endangered walia ibex and red wolves, and hippos grazing in papyrus shallows? Where else can you walk to market amidst hundreds of donkeys, oxen, and local families, be invited into a mud hut for hand-ground coffee and boiled potatoes, and watch farmers separating wheat the way it was done a thousand years ago? Where else can you hike at over 13,000 feet, eat warm injera bread, and easily buy frankincense and myrrh?

Only Ethiopia, my friend. Only Ethiopia.