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Ethiopia is US Level 3. Three whole regions are closed by UK advice, and one warning speaks directly to travelers of Ethiopian descent.

Ethiopian eating is communal, seasoned by a fasting calendar most visitors never hear about, and built on a grain grown almost nowhere else.

Ethiopia keeps its own calendar, its own clock and its own alphabet, and it is the only African country never formally colonized.

Ethiopia has seven festivals and traditions on UNESCO's intangible heritage list, more than any other country in this series, with fixed dates.

Ethiopia never became a diaspora through the Atlantic trade, and the reconnection it offers is a different one. There is also a warning to read.

On Ethiopia the accessibility question starts with which regions you can reach and what happens if you need a hospital outside Addis Ababa.

A school built in 1876 for the children of liberated Africans, high on a mountain on Mahé, and a stop on the Indian Ocean slave route.

Four coral islands around a lagoon, so hard to reach that they were never spoiled. Some 152,000 giant tortoises live there, the world's largest population.

A palm forest on Praslin kept almost in its original state, and home to the coco de mer, which produces the largest seed in the plant kingdom.

The first island of the group ever sighted, in 1609, and one whose heritage case rests on Creole tradition as much as on its wildlife.

The planning method applied to one concrete trip: twelve days in Ghana, and every decision that shaped it. An illustration, not a recommendation.

The answer is not a month. It is a coast, because the monsoon that makes one side of an island safe to swim makes the other side dangerous.

No visa is required, but you cannot board without a travel authorization, and it asks for your accommodation and your onward ticket.

There is no FCDO money page for Seychelles. What the advice does cover is a cash declaration made before you fly, and what not to carry.

A chikungunya outbreak, an unusually stern set of road hazards and beaches that are unsafe by season decide most of a Seychelles bag.