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Melkam Addis Amet / Happy New Year

Yadey Abeba -Meskal Daisy - Field in Gurage

Yadey Abeba – Meskal Daisy

We wish all or friends, family, supporters and partners Melkam Addis Amet: Happy New Year. Today – as the thirteenth month (Pagume) ends we say goodbye to 2015 and welcome in 2016 in the Ethiopian Calendar.

In this past year (2015), known as a Lukas year, (there is one for each of the four evangelists) the thirteenth month has an extra 6th day in it  (today) – a leap month pushing the New Year date in the western calendar to tomorrow – 12 September. 

The western and Ethiopian calendars will be ‘out of sync’ until the leap day at the end of February.  So known dates like Timkat usually the 19th January will be on the 20th January in the coming year (a Yohannes Year). But Gena (Ethiopian Christmas) is even more

Tesfa Agenda

complicated. So probably the moment to get your hands on a Tesfa Calendar or Agenda/diary. 

The Tesfa Calendar and Agenda are available with all the Ethiopian dates set into the western calendar so you can see what is coming

Tesfa Agenda pages

up. Weaving the many saints days, annual festivals, fasting periods, Islamic holidays and various curiosities, and even the full moon dates has been a labour of love for 17 years now! Conscious of the environment for the 3rd year, we are printing this on recycled paper.  It is available from Tesfa Tours and in some other locations in town. Contact us on calendars@tesfatours.com to get your copy, or call our office 011 124 5178 / 092 349 0495.

We pray that 2016 will be a peaceful and happy year for Ethiopia!

 

 

 

 

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Happy New Year to all of our Friends

Mulat – every smiling guide

We have had a lot of holidays here in the last few weeks: Christmas, Gabriel, Western New Year, and Gena yesterday. We hope all of our friends and supporters have had a good holiday season and we hope that 2021 proves to be a marked improvement on 2020. However we have celebrated under a bit of a cloud, as for a long time we have not been able to contact some of our team members and good friends who are in Adigrat.

For those of you who have trekked in the Agame mountains you will know what a wonderful team of guides, communities and our two drivers we have there. Over the last few weeks information trickled in that this person and that person was OK but I just now had great news from one of the original guides from the Community Tourism in Tigray: Mulat. He came to Mekele and called me and he, his family and all of the community tourism guides are fine.

Hailay (Tesfa Tours driver) peeling a prickly Pear – Beles fruit!

The other news is that the Tesfa guesthouses are OK, I think one has been occupied, but other than that they should be OK when we can resume tourism in the area (not in the near future though).
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Life has been tough for everyone – but electricity is now restored. There is still no mobile network north of Mekele, and banks are not working, but at least our team are OK.

This will put a smile on all our faces – a real cause to be happy. Lets hope for more positive news and more positive developments where ever you are as 2021 gets underway.  Happy New Year.

 

 

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Happy New (Ethiopian) Year

Today is 5/13/2008 in Ethiopia, the fifth of the 13th month 2008! And tomorrow will be the 1/1/2009! This 13th month is Pagumay generally 5 days long, but on leap years it is 6 days.

Meskal flowers in Meket, North Wollo

Meskal flowers in Meket, North Wollo

Many think that New Year marks the end of the rainy season, well not quite, but it does mark the point at which the rains get less frequent, the flowers start to come out and the promise of a new harvest is seen around the country.
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This year by a happy coincidence Eid al Adha also falls in the coming days.

So best wishes to everyone for a happy holidays and a peaceful 2009!

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