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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.

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.

Bahir Dar, the tallest five-star hotel in Ethiopia

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.

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.

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.

St George’s Church

Statue outside St George’s Church

St George’s Church

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

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.

Bahir Dar Anbessa Hotel

Blue Nile Hotel

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.

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.

Bahir Dar mosque

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

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

Desset restaurant on Lake Tana

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

Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum (Amaryllis) is a genus in the family Amaryllidaceae. The name Hippeastrum, given to it by William Herbert, means "Knight's-star-lily"

Mango tree

Banana

Desset restaurant on Lake Tana

Desset restaurant on Lake Tana

The Warka tree or Ficus Vasta is a native to Ethiopia and is a kind of a wild fig tree 

Text: InternetPictures: Sanda Foişoreanu Sanda Negruţiu Daniel Scrãdeanu Alin Samochis InternetCopyright: All the images belong to their authors

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