She found the shops were "poorly stocked with few tinned and some dried goods such as spaghetti and plain biscuits."

The principal tourism services was the Wolf’s Den Café which offers trekking facilities including the hiring of guides and horses.

A mosque had been built in the middle of town shortly before Flintan's village to serve the needs of the Moslem majority, while an older Christian church was "tucked away behind trees and the river.

The town was also the main base for the Ethiopian wolf conservation project for many years, and some wolves can be found nearby.

Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, Dinsho has an estimated total population of 3,609 of whom 1,772 were males and 1,837 were females.