Ethiopia named top country to visit in 2014

If you like your holidays to come with a big slice of adventure, you might want to take note of a new top ten from no-nonsense travel publisher Rough Guides.

The holiday authority has named its best countries to visit in 2014 – a list headed by Ethiopia.

According to Rough Guides, a ‘boom’ in small hotels and restaurants is making travelling around this culturally rich east African nation much easier, giving adventurous tourists the chance to experience ‘untouched national parks, ancient cities, the world’s first coffee plantations, the largest cave in Africa and the continent’s greatest concentration of UNESCO sites‘. Read more