Ethiopia, unhurried.

Eleven medieval churches hewn straight down into living rock — still in daily worship.

Gelada troops and walia ibex along escarpments that fall a kilometre into the lowlands.

The hottest inhabited place on Earth — sulphur springs, salt caravans, Erta Ale’s lava lake.

Stelae fields and the claimed resting place of the Ark of the Covenant.

Fasil Ghebbi’s castle compound — the "Camelot of Africa" of the 17th-century emperors.

One of the last great crossroads of living human cultures on the continent.

A thousand-year-old walled city of 82 mosques — and the nightly hyena men.

Ethiopian wolves on the Sanetti Plateau, Africa’s largest alpine moorland.