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Welcome to Paradise Ethiopia! |
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Ethiopia is truly a land of discovery – brilliant and beautiful,
secretive, mysterious, and extraordinary. Above all things, it is a
country of great antiquity, with a culture and traditions dating back
more than 3000 years. The traveler in Ethiopia makes a journey through
time, transported by beautiful monuments and the ruins of edifices
built long centuries ago.
Do you know where the word ‘coffee’ comes from? It is from ‘Kaffa’, a coffee-growing
region in Ethiopia. This makes Ethiopia the birthplace of coffee.
Coffee drinking is an important social and cultural tradition in
today’s Ethiopia, and is practiced with ritualized and elaborate
ceremonies. But it was not always so. A hundred years ago, most
Ethiopians had never drunk coffee. Along with tobacco, the brew was
considered evil by the Christian Orthodox church, and church members
were banned from drinking it on pain of excommunication.
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