Ethiopia16, Lake Tana, Bahir Dar

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ETHIOPIA
Lake Tana
Bahir Dar
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LAKETANA
Bahir Dar is a beautiful city with tree-lined
avenues and set on the shores of the deep blue
Lake Tana. Measuring 68 km by 73 km, Tana is
Ethiopia's largest lake and famous for the
churches and monasteries on 20 of the lake's 37
islands. Bahir Dar city lies on the southern tip
of Lake Tana. The city enjoys tropical type of
climate with an average temperature of 17.50c.
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Bahir Dar, the tallest five-star hotel in Ethiopia
Today the city is developing fast into a place of
considerable social, political and economic
activities, with a population of about 130,000
people. It is also becoming a top commercial
center of the Amhara National Regional State.
Bahir Dar is the gateway to the Blue Nile Falls
and the Zeghe Peninsula
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A recently acquired hobby of the current
president of Ethiopia is having war memorials
dedicated to the Derg and Ethiopian resistance to
the Derg constructed
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The Derg is the short name of the Coordinating
Committee of the Armed Forces, Police, and
Territorial Army that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to
1987. Between 1975 and 1987, the Derg executed
and imprisoned tens of thousands of its opponents
without trial. After internal conflicts that
resulted in the executions of General Tafari
Benti and several of his supporters by November
1977, and the later execution of Colonel Atnafu
Abate, Mengistu gained undisputed leadership of
the Derg
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Bahir Dar is a small town set on the south -
eastern shore of lake Tana, where local fishermen
still use papyrus boats, and just 30 km from the
spectacular Tissisat Falls
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Statue outside St Georges Church
St Georges Church
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St Georges Church
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The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana
in Ethiopia. With the White Nile, the river is
one of the two major tributaries of the Nile. The
upper reaches of the river is called the Abbay in
Ethiopia, where it is considered holy by many,
and is believed to be the River Gihon mentioned
as flowing out of the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2
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A Polytechnic Institute, built by the Soviet
Union opened in 1963, with courses in
agricultural mechanics, industrial chemistry,
electrical technology, wood-working and
processing technology, textile technology, and
metal technology
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Bahir Dar Anbessa Hotel
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The Blue Nile Falls (Tis Issat) are located about
30 km to the south. Nowadays the amount of water
running through the falls is being reduced and
regulated, since the construction of a
hydroelectric power dam
Blue Nile Hotel
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Nevertheless, the Blue Nile Falls are still one
of the main tourist attractions of Bahir Dar,
especially during the rainy season when the water
level rises and the falls become greater
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Bahir Dar mosque
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The three largest ethnic groups reported in Bahir
Dar Special Zone were the Amhara (96.23), the
Tigrayan (1.11), and the Oromo (1.1)
Cyperus papyrus
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Cyperus papyrus (Nile grass) is a species of
aquatic flowering plant, native to Africa,
forming tall stands of reed-like swamp vegetation
in shallow water Lake Tana, papyrus and Weaver
bird (Ploceus aurantius) nest
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Desset restaurant on Lake Tana
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Banana flowers are considered to be a good source
of many vitamins along with dietary fibers,
proteins and unsaturated fatty acids. They are
also considered to possess immense medicinal value
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Hippeastrum
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Rudbeckia, Gloriosa Daisies
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Hippeastrum
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Hippeastrum (Amaryllis) is a genus in the family
Amaryllidaceae. The name Hippeastrum, given to it
by William Herbert, means "Knight's-star-lily"
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The Purple Showers Mexican Petunia
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Mango tree
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Banana
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Desset restaurant on Lake Tana
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Desset restaurant on Lake Tana
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The Warka tree or Ficus Vasta is a native to
Ethiopia and is a kind of a wild fig tree 
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