Bizarre West – Western Ethiopia

Western Ethiopia remains the least-explored area of the country, which leaves it all the more opens to adventurers, from the Ethiopian highlands to the humid lowlands of Gambella. Coffee lovers – come visit the beverage’s birthplace in what used to be the kingdom of Kaffa. It is the Natural home of the arabica coffee bean, origin of the world’s favorite hot brew, and still the region’s main export crop. An under publicized wildlife-lover’s paradise, where colobus monkeys swing though roadside trees, elephants and buffalos lurk in forest glades, and an alluring bird checklist includes many forest endemics along with the spectacular shoebill and Egyptian plover.