Arrive in Addis Ababa- the third highest capital in the world lying between 2300 - 2500 meters, be met by our representative and get transferred into your hotel.

Overnight: hotel

Fly to Bahir Dar and check in to your Hotel. Bahir Dar is one of the Ethiopia's most attractive towns, with its Palm lined avenues, flamboyant trees and scenic location on the southern shore of Lake Tana. The Lake is the source of the Blue Nile and famous for its many monasteries. After you check into your hotel travel across the lake to Zeghe peninsula and visit the two Churches of Azuwa Mariam and Ura Kidane Mehirat, which is renowned for its wall painting.
After lunch drive to the Blue Nile falls some 30km/45minue drive from the town followed by a 20 minute walk that brings you to the fall, which are at their most spectacular during and after the rainy season (from about June to January).

Overnight: Hotel

Today you will drive to Gondar en route visiting the Awra-Amba community .It was founded in 1985, by a group of 20 people; to demonstrate its members and other Ethiopian’s that the best escaping route from poverty and hunger is not only Religion or prayer, looking for one’s donation, or to complain about the weather and other factors but also Education and planning has a great role along with hard working habit. In addition to this; in Awra-Amba there is no division of labor among its dwellers. Here unlike most Ethiopian country side inhabitants; both sexes share the responsibilities and duties of making a living, raising a child and others. Then drive to Gondar and Check into your Hotel.

In the late afternoon you will have the city tour of Gondar. You will start to explore the town Emperor Fasilidas founded as his imperial seat in 1636 and the city was both the capital and a great commercial center from 17th to the mid-19th century. Visit the Royal Enclosure or Fasil Gibbi within the compound and also the castles built by the various emperors of Gondar. A 2 km drive from the town center will bring you to the bath of King Fasilides, where, during at Timkat (Ethiopian Epiphany) a nearby river is diverted to fill an area the size of a small swimming pool. Worshippers plunge into the cold water in a re-enactment of the baptism of Christ in the River Jordan.

Continue driving 2 km to the north east of the Royal Enclosure to visit the Debre Berhane Selassie church, the only church that was saved from Mahdist invasion in the 1880s. According to legend, a swarm of bees routed the invaders. The walls and ceiling of this church are completely covered with murals - the angels’ faces on the ceiling have become a common motif in Ethiopian design.

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Up on arrival start to explore the town, visit the internationally renowned rock Hewn churches known as ‘Eighth wonders of the world’. The Lalibella rock hewn churches, physically praised from the rock in which they stand, these towering edifices seem to be superhuman creation in scale, workman ship and concept. Some are sculpted out of solid volcanic rock, others are connected by long underground tunnels and mazes, some are quarried enlargements of caves.

You will visit the first group of six churches that lie in rock cradles one behind the other: Bet
Golgotha, Bet Mikael, Bet Mariam, Bet Meskel, Bet Danaghel and Bet Medhane Alem.
Bet Medhane Alem, the largest one is built like a Greek Temple. In a corner there are three empty graves symbolically dug for biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Bet Giyorgis, possibly the most elegant of all the Lalibela churches, lies somewhat isolated in the southwest part of the village on a sloping rock terrace. It can only be reached through a tunnel. The group of four, south of the Jordan River, comprise of Bet Emanuel, Bet Mercuiros, Bet Abba Libanos and Bet Gabriel-Rufa'el.

Bet Emanuel's elaborate exterior is much praised by art historians.

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Morning after breakfast you will drive to the cave church of Yemerehane Christos, built by the king of the same name before the reign of King Lalibela.

The church is constructed inside a cave, with alternating levels of wood and stone. A 40-km trip from Lalibela followed by a 20-minute hike brings you to this beautiful church, the finest example of its kind in Ethiopia.

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Today after breakfast transfer to the airport for your flight to Axum, From around 200 BC to
700 AD, Axum was the seat of an Empire which extended across the Red Sea to Arabia, traded with India and China, had its own alphabet and notational system, constructed great engineering works and dams and which was reckoned in the 4th century to be one of the four great powers of the ancient world.

Today visitors can see Stella (the largest single pieces of stone erected anywhere – how they were brought from the quarry and erected is still not fully understood), the tombs and castles of kings, Axum Museum and Mariam Tsion Church, built on the site of Ethiopia’s first church. A chapel within the church compound is believed by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians to house the Ark of the Covenant, or the original tablets of Moses.

Overnight: Hotel

Today you will fly back to Addis Ababa and upon arrival check in to your Hotel and in the evening you will have a farewell dinner in one of the traditional Restaurants in Addis Ababa with traditional Ethiopian food and cultural dances together with us.

Overnight: Hotel