Harar

Harar The city’s fortified walls, built between the 13th and 16th Centuries, even have small holes in them to allow the hyenas to enter the city at night. The daily hyena feeding spectacle is just one example of this city’s […]

Harar
The city’s fortified walls, built between the 13th and 16th Centuries, even have small holes in them to allow the hyenas to enter the city at night.
The daily hyena feeding spectacle is just one example of this city’s unique heritage.
“This is one of the world’s ancient civilisations,” local historian Abdulswamad Idris tells me.
“Some of the mosques you see here were built in the 10th Century.”
Early convert to Islam
Harar is a city that goes by many names, from the city of saints to a living museum, while some Ethiopians consider it to be Islam’s fourth holiest city after Mecca, Jerusalem and Medina, although this view is not shared by most Muslims.
It has even been called the city of peace, a name I spot on a huge one huge neon sign as I enter the town.
Slideshow of the Fortified Historic Town Of Harar Jugol: The slideshow presents a short series of pictures of Harar provided by John Mason. They show the narrow alleyways, city walls, and bustling markets of the old town, as well as a particularly fine example of an (Indian-style) townhouse, and the extraordinary night-time ritual of men feeding wild hyenas at a shrine outside the city walls.
Slideshow of the Fortified Historic Town Of Harar Jugol:

Hyena Man oF Harar
Among the locals of Harar, Yusuf is known simply as the “hyena man”– a title he inherited from his father, Yusuf Saleh who began feeding hyenas in the 1960s to protect his livestock. Over time, Saleh became familiar with the wild animals, naming them and even luring some into his home to feed. Today, from a small hill behind his home, littered with animal bones, picked clean and forgotten.

Where to Stay
There are classic Hotels in Harar some of them are Harar Ras Hotel,Wonderland Hotel,Grand Gato Hotel,Sumeya Hotel.