A trek 325 mi/525 km northwest of Addis Ababa in the Simien Mountains is likely to be the high point of a visitor's time in Ethiopia. (The highest peaks top 13,100 ft/4,000 m.) The breathtaking m ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — As we darted through Addis Ababa ... From the dramatic peaks of Simien Mountains National Park ...

The park is home to some extremely rare animals such as the Gelada baboon, the Simien fox and the Walia ibex, a goat found nowhere else in the world.

Sectarian and civil conflict still wrack other parts of Ethiopia, but not this one ... and then turned northwest, to Simien Mountains National Park. Some people he had consulted before his ...

Geladas (a male and female in the Simien Mountains) signal their status ... visited Beehner's camp in Simien Mountain National Park for a month to photograph the animals. Male geladas are the ...

From the dramatic peaks of Simien Mountains National Park to the sprawling salt plains of the Danakil ... “With a few days, you can get a taste,” guide Yonas Zewede of Landscape Ethiopia Tours assured ...

1997 Mission report, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), Simien National Park 1996 Technical Mission to Ethiopia on Simen Mountains National Park and World Heritage Site, 2-9 Nov. 1996: ...

Draft Report on a mission to Simien ... Information presented to the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee in 1995 The site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1978. A workshop on the "Simen ...