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LakeTana “Shepherd Tree”

Lake Tana is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia. The lake level has been regulated since the construction of the control weir where the lake discharges into the Blue Nile. This controls the flow to the Blue Nile Falls (Tis Isat) and hydro-power station. The Blue Nile Falls is a waterfall on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. It is known as Tis Abay in Amharic, meaning "smoking water". It is situated on the upper course of the river, about 30 km downstream from the town of Bahir Dar and Lake Tana. The falls are considered one of Ethiopia's best known tourist attractions.The falls are estimated to be between 37 and 45 metres high, consisting of four streams that originally varied from a trickle in the dry season to over 400 metres wide in the rainy season. Regulation of Lake Tana now reduces the variation somewhat, and since 2003 a hydro-electric station has taken much of the flow out of the falls except during the rainy season.

The Blue Nile Falls (Tis Issat) are located 28km southeast of Bahir Dar down a bad dirt road.

The Blue Nile River

Crossing the Blue Nile river by motorboat. The boat service usually operates 7am to 6pm, but when the river runs too fast the boats can’t cross

Strangler fig

The entire walk is about 5km and takes about 2½ hours

Catha edulis (khat, qat, or edible kat) is a flowering plant that is native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Among communities from these areas, khat chewing has a history as a social custom dating back thousands of years. Khat contains a monoamine alkaloid stimulant, which is said to cause excitement, loss of appetite, and euphoria. In 1980, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified it as a drug

Coffee Kiosk

The falls after the rainy season in September is dropping over a sheer chasm more than 45 meters deep, the falls throw up a continuous spray of water droplets which drench onlookers up to a kilometer away. This misty deluge produces rainbows that shift and shimmer across the gorge, and a perpetual forest of lush green vegetation much to the delight of the innumerable monkeys and coloured birds that inhabit the gorge.

deep basaltic rift

The site overlooking the waterfall has been visited over the years by many notable travelers, including the Scottish traveller James Bruce, travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia. In 1965 Queen Elizabeth II paid a state visit to the Ethiopian Empire. As an excellent host Emperor Haile Selassie took her to the impressive Tississah Falls of the Blue Nile

‘You are Africa's black soil that produce lifeYou are the milk that quench the thirsty multitudesYou are the messenger of my gospel, O NileThat bring my abundant harvest to the mouth of the needyYou are the elegant pilgrim of my mercyYour are the first fountain you are the first ever EthiopiaYou are the appeaser of the lustful greedYou are the first Earth Mother of all fertilityRising like the sun from the deepest core of the globeYou are the conqueror of the scorching pestilenceYou are the source you the Africa you are the EthiopiaYou are the Nile.’ Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, Ethiopian Poet Laureate

Sound: Iwan Fals - Ethiopia

Text: InternetPictures: Sanda Foişoreanu Sanda Negruţiu Alin Samochis Daniel Scrãdeanu InternetCopyright: All the images belong to their authors

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