🙂 Scenery. Food. Coffee
🙁 Poverty
Currency: Ethiopian Birr
THREE things that we did not know about Ethiopia:
- First founded in 980 BC, Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa. It is also the second most populated country in Africa with a population of over 106 million people, making it second to Nigeria. Ethiopia also stands as the only African country that has never been colonised.
- The time zone in Ethiopia is the East African Time (EAT). Ethiopia does not observe daylight saving time. The daytime cycle begins at dawn which is 6:00am (EAT) and ends at dusk which is 5:59pm (EAT). The night time cycle begins at dusk which is 6:00pm (EAT) and ends at dawn which is 5:59am (EAT).
- It is confirmed that coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia and moved around the world through slave trading and other means. There are several accounts to exactly how it was discovered. One account is that a 9th century goat herder in Ethiopia noticed how energised his goats became whenever they fed from a certain bush. This led him to try and chew the fruits from the bush. He took these fruits to a monastery and a monk threw them into the fire. The enticing aroma attracted other monks and the fruit was dissolved in hot water, yielding the world’s first cup of coffee.
