{"id":277242,"date":"2019-05-28T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEBickGq-YMavn7o2gVhcR24qFwgEKg4IACoGCAowm6R6MMKqCTCy8LkF?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:12","slug":"a-telegraph-travel-feature-took-readers-into-ethiopias-gheralta-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277242","title":{"rendered":"A Telegraph travel feature took readers into Ethiopia\u2019s Gheralta mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Telegraph published a travel feature describing a party of singers, Habesha beer, and a one-legged dancer at Koraro cave in the Gheralta Mountains of Tigray.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Telegraph travel feature took readers into Ethiopia\u2019s Gheralta mountains\" \/>\n<p>The piece sold a corner of Ethiopia that few package tourists reached, mixing landscape, local hospitality, and older Tigrayan songs about farm work and brothers lost at war.<\/p>\n<p>Culture writing about Gheralta matters because rock-hewn churches and highland trails later sat inside a war zone, and pre-conflict travel prose is part of the record of what visitors were sold.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture and tourism archive, the Telegraph feature dates how foreign media marketed northern Ethiopia\u2019s beauty in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/destinations\/africa\/ethiopia\/articles\/danakil-depression-ethiopia-travel-guide\/\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beautiful corner of Ethiopia few tourists reach&nbsp;&nbsp;The TelegraphDancing around a bonfire to the beat of a goatskin drum, a party of Ethiopian men is singing 50-year-old Tigrayan songs about working in the fields and brothers lost at war. Wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a7E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754943,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277242\/revisions\/754943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}