Tour 12 Days Untouched Ethiopia Tours Northern Ethiopia , Drive T

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highly trained Trip Manager who brings your adventure to life. Local Guides who make tourist traps a thing of the past and Local Experts in their Distinations. This is your team. Smart, friendly, fun, and integral to everything we do.

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mini van

Others

All Entrance fees and licenses as per the program. Accommodation and all meals throughout the tour. Bottles of water for the trip. Surface Transport expense with four-wheel drive Land-cruiser including fuel expense and drivers allowance Local guide service for the afar region as per the program.

Accommodation

For nights, you’ll be resting your bones in standard hotels scattered across the Northern Ethiopia . Sleep twin or triple share, or splash a few extra USD and upgrade to your own room.

Not included:

Optional

Optional experiences are available on this tour for an additional cost and will be provided to you with your finalised travel documents.

Insurance

Insurance not included. Travel insurance is required for all of our tours.

Meals

breackfast

Others

internatiointernatioina flights Arrival and departure transfers. Tipping. Other meals, snacks and drinks. Pre and post tour accommodation. Single supplement (Optional).

Flights

Flights International and domestic flights not included

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Day 1 Day 1: Addis Ababa
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Addis Ababa

You will have an early breakfast and your first visit in Addis Ababa will be the National Museum (pre historic, cultural, archaeological attractions), Ethnographic Museum of Addis Ababa University (culture, dressing style, traditional practices of over 80 ethnic groups, and collection of traditional musical instruments). Lunch at Lucy Restaurant. Your visit also comprises tourist attraction sites like Emperor Minelik’s Palace, St. Raguel’s Church (after a drive to Entoto Mountain - 3000 meter above sea level), Merkato, (the largest open market in Africa).In the evening, we will host you at one of the best traditional restaurants of Addis where you can see the folk dances of the Ethiopian people and taste Ethiopian variety of meals. Overnight stay in Radissun Blu Hotel, Addis Ababa.
Day 2 Day 2: Bahir Dar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Bahir Dar

Today we will take a spectacular flight to Bahar Dar. From the air we can gaze across the extraordinary nature of the Ethiopian Plateau, repeatedly cut by immensely deep gorges. Bahar Dar is a small but fast growing town on the southern shore of Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile. It has long attracted religious men and the area contains numerous churches and monasteries, many of them on the thirty or so islands of Lake Tana. The afternoon is free, perhaps to enjoy the remarkable birdlife in the area, but most people will probably want to take the excursion by boat on the lake to visit some of the monasteries. The nearest one, the 15th century Kebrane Gabriel, is forbidden to women, but Ura-Kidanemereth, on a peninsula jutting out into the lake, is open to all. Under the thatched roof are some distinctive colourful paintings of religious scenes, and an impressive display of illuminated bibles written in Ge’ez, the religious language from which Amharic is derived. Meal: Breakfast /Lunch /Dinner- Overnight Hotel
Day 3 Day 3: Gonder
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Gonder

You will be driven to Gondar (185 Km) right after breakfast. Then you will check into a hotel and after a brief break, you will have lunch. Then, you will visit to the Royal Castles & the Bath of Emperor Fasiledes (the bath is filled with water for the important Timkat (epiphany) ceremony once a year. You will continue your visit to Debre Birhan Selassie Church (Trinity at the Mount of Light), the Castle of Empress Mintewab, and Kuskwam Complex which is a royal compound built by the Empress Mentewab. Early in the evening, you will visit ‘AzmariBet’ at Traditional Music Houses after which you will have dinner at the hotel and stay there for the night. Overnight stay in Goha hotel.
Day 4 Day 4: Debark
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Debark

You will have breakfast & drive to Debark (100 Km from Gonder) finish formalities at the Head Quarter of the park at Debarq and continue to drive another 20km then make a short walk/trek and spend the day visiting the Simien Mountains National Park (registered by UNISCO as a world heritage site, with endemic & mammals, birds, natural vegetation, & wonderful landscape). Late in afternoon drive back to Debarq for overnight stay or stay in Simien Lodge at Sankeber. Overnight stay in Simien Lodge at Sankeber or Simien Park Hotel at Debarq.
Day 5 Day 5: Drive To Lalibela
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Drive To Lalibela

Drive on a scenic road to Lalibela. Arrive at your hotel in the late afternoon and enjoy the sunset from the terrace.

Overnight Hotel (B, L, D)
Day 6 Day 6: Visit Lalibela
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 6: Visit Lalibela

Tour the magnificent rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This group of eleven monolithic and semi-monolithic structures were carved directly into the stone of the mountainside at least 800 years ago. This complex boasts the largest monolithic church in the world, a maze of passageways and tunnels, intricately carved reliefs, and fabulous examples of icon paintings.
Day 7 Day 7: Fly To Addis Then To Semera
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Fly To Addis Then To Semera

fly to addis then to semera fly then drive through Lake afdera the Salt Lake, Passing through the beautiful lake afdera and a breath taking land scape and arrive in Dalol in the afternoon and visit the lake Asebo Asebo is the place where the salts are mined. Observe the breaking of the salt from the ground, cutting into rectangular pieces and loading on camels. You drive ahead to Dallol (-130 m) and visit the difference landscape formed by volcanic activity, Dallol + Lake Assal (-130 m) + camel caravans (No camel caravan on July, August, and early September).

Excursion to Dallol (116 meters below sea level, one of the lowest places in the world) colorful

salts mining, visit Lake Assal, follow up camel caravans and walk with the Afar people, see the

sunsetig the beautiful and colorful land scape. Drive back to Hamedela, Overnight Camping –

Hamedela
Day 8 Day 8: Ertaale-Hamadela-Dallol-Afdera
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Ertaale-Hamadela-Dallol-Afdera

his day after an early breakfast we will drive to HamadEla at 04:30, a better village with a total population of about 500 people. You will see lots of camel caravans and you will have the sunset look from the very shallow salt Lake Assale.

Morning tour Drive to Ragad (Asebo), the place where the

localities are mining salt. 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi) of the Afar Depression is covered by salt, and you will Look at the activity of breaking the salt from the ground, local people are cutting it into rectangular pieces and loading it on camels. You drive ahead to Dallol and visit the different landscapes formed by volcanic activity; Dallol + Lake Assale + salt canon, camel caravans, follow up camel caravans, and　Drive back to semera This day you may have another chance to see the beauty of the sunrise in lake Afdera then after breakfast, we will drive to the town of Semera and drop you at the airport for your departure
Day 9 Day 9: Awash National Park
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 9: Awash National Park

We will be driving from semera to Awash River and the park covers 756 square kilometers of acacia woodland and grassland. In the south of the park the Awash River gorge has amazing waterfalls. In the upper Kudu Valley at Filwoha are hot springs amid groves of palm trees. In the evening you will have a chance to do a short game drive to see the local wildlife, such as oryx, baboons, greater and lesser kudu, warthogs, gazelles, Columbus monkeys. Additionally, you’d be very lucky to see leopards, lions, and other cats. The landscapes in the park are beautiful, looking over the Awash Gorge. Today you can drive deep into the park, near the hot springs.

Overnight Lodge
Day 10 Day 10: Awash Np To Harar
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 10: Awash Np To Harar

Awash NP – Harar

Early in the morning drive to Dire Dawa where you will be met upon arrival and drive to Harar. Harar is a labyrinth of small streets surrounded by old city walls is the fourth holiest city for the muslim people next to Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. Its architecture reflects a strong Islamic influence. The sightseeing of Harar will include the market, the French poet –Rimbaud house, the harari museum and the tomb of Emir Nur hwo buit the Harar walls known Jugol. Tonight we will attain the hyena-man show.
Day 11 Day 11: Excursion To Babible
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 11: Excursion To Babible

Excursion to Babible

This day you will have an excursion to Babile to see the biggest camel market in Ethiopia. Visit and drive back to Harar. After having your lunch you will continue the remaining sights in Harar; the harari museum and the tomb of Emir Nur hwo buit the Harar walls known Jugol. Overnight in Harar.
Day 12 Day 12: Drive To Diredewa Then Addis Abeba
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 12: Drive To Diredewa Then Addis Abeba

fly back to addis abeba , relax ,shoping .

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12 Days Untouched Ethiopia Tours Northern Ethiopia , Drive T

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Itinerary of your trip 12 Days Untouched Ethiopia Tours Northern Ethiopia , Drive T

Day 1: Addis Ababa

Day 2: Bahir Dar

Day 3: Gonder

Day 4: Debark

Day 5: Drive To Lalibela

Day 6: Visit Lalibela

Day 7: Fly To Addis Then To Semera

Day 8: Ertaale-Hamadela-Dallol-Afdera

Day 9: Awash National Park

Day 10: Awash Np To Harar

Day 11: Excursion To Babible

Day 12: Drive To Diredewa Then Addis Abeba

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