Coffee tour at Jima – 7 Days
Highlights
Tour Plan
Arrive in Addis Ababa- the third highest capital in the world lies between 2300 - 2500 meters, met by our representative and get transferred to your hotel.
Overnight: Hotel
Today after breakfast, you will drive to Jimma (345 Km from Addis). On the way, you will pass through beautiful landscapes as you drive through the Gibe River Valley. Later, you can visit Jimma Museum and King Abba Jiffar Place.
Overnight: Hotel
After breakfast, Today after breakfast drive to Bebeka via the highland town of Mizan Tefari, about 260kms up on arrival cheek your hotel and Visit Bebeka Coffee plantation, the largest plantation in Ethiopia and drive to Tepi, about 80km. This drive will take you through the panoramic landscape, tea and coffee plantations and extensive tropical forests.
Overnight: Hotel
Today visit the Crater Lake within the plantation, experimental spice and fruit plantations and the pulping and processing stations. This drive will take you through the panoramic landscape, tea and coffee plantations and extensive tropical forests.
Overnight: Hotel
This is a drive through the Kaffa region of Ethiopia; whose name is immortalized as the derivative of the word ‘coffee’ and ‘café’. Kaffa is generally regarded to be the region from where the Arabica strain of coffee originated, and it is also where this plant was first cultivated. A popular legend, said variously to date to between the 3rd and 10th centuries, claims that a young herdsman called Kaldi first observed the stimulating properties of wild coffee.
Visit the Bonga Forest Reserve, which sprawls over some 500km2 of the surrounding hillsides. These are among the last remaining subtropical moist forests of any significant size to be found in Ethiopia and are renowned for their abundance of sustainable timber forest products- coffee, forest cardamom, forest pepper and honey. These closed canopy forests also host a large number of monkey, a rich and largely undocumented avifauna, and numerous interesting natural feature including hot springs and waterfalls.
Overnight: Hotel
In the morning after breakfast, you drive back to Jimma. Depending on arrival you can continue a visit to the Jimma attractions. Visit the historical palace of Sultan Abba Jifar (1853 – 1925) that is standing at Jiren. Still stands with its colorful architectural beauty. And continue your visit to Jimma museum that displays most of the historical materials of King Abba Jifar, his kingdom and cultural objects of the local Oromo people and that of the other ethnic groups around Kaffa.
Overnight: Hotel.