NORTH-WEST 10 days

01. MON. Arrival in Addis Ababa. Transfer to the chosen hotel. Have a free morning. Afternoon (1400 hrs from the hotel) tour of the capital: visit Entoto mountain with views over the capital, the National & the Ethnographic museums, St George church and the Mercato, biggest open air market in Africa. Meals free. ON (overnight) hotel.

02. Leave your hotel around 0700am and proceed to the DebreLibanos monastery. Visit the monastery and very nice views over Jemma river. Visit also the Old Portuguese Bridge and spot the endemic Gelada baboons.
Continue then to Bahirdar, crossing the Blue Nile gorge, to reach late afternoon
Lunch on the way. Dinner & ON hotel (Abayminch or Tana. With supplement you can choose the Kuriftu lodge. Inform us during the quotation)

03. Morning drive approximately 1 hour to reach the Blue Nile falls. Admire these spectacular falls. Then late morning drive back to Bahirdar.
Afternoon make a boat excursion on lake Tana to visit the monasteries over its islands, as Ura Kidane Mehret and Asua Mariam.
Lunch at your hotel in Bahirdar. Have dinner in a restaurant in town. ON hotel

04. THU. Start your drive from Bahirdar early in the morning (not later than 7am) for Chagni (285 km from Bahirdar), where you start visiting the Gumze people. Being Thursday enjoy the colorful Gumze market at Chagni village.
Then proceed to Beles (other 40 km), admiring on the way the Agew & Gunze villages.
Lunch on the way; dinner & ON camp at Shinashia next to an Agew people village.

05. Proceed then to a traditional Shinashia people village (120 km from Beles). Then drive to Asosa, the capital city of the Benishangul & Gumze people (the population reach around 1,000,000 people including also the Berta, Shinashia, Mao & Komo). Visit the town and the old palace of Dej Asmach Jemal, built during Emperor Menelik reign (19th century).
Lunch on the way; dinner &ON camping or local hotel at Asosa.

06. SAT. Early morning drive to Sherkole, where you can admire the Berta people. Here you can see them extracting gold (which is really very interesting). Later proceed to Bambasi (40km from Asosa) to visit the Mao and Komo people. The Mao & Komo are semi-nomadic & hunters people with scarification all over their body & different tradition. Being Saturday we’ll visit the very colorful market of the Mao, Komo & Berta people at Bambasi.
Late afternoon drive back to Asosa.
Lunch on the way; dinner &ON camping or local hotel at Asosa.

07. After having breakfast set on to drive to Ghimbi. On the way visit Yr’amsera village of the Mao & Komo people.
Lunch on the way; dinner & ON local hotel at Asosa

08. Drive to Jimma. Afternoon visit the Aba Jifar palace & the museum. Jima is also the capital of Kafa region, most famous for its coffee plantations.
Lunch on the way; dinner & ON hotel

09. Drive to Woliso town (called also Ghion) and proceed to Negash lodge, where you can relax in a beautiful nature and can enjoy also the swimming pool.
Lunch on the way; dinner & ON Negash lodge

10. Drive to Wonchi crater, for spectacular views over the lake down to the crater. Optional can visit also the church on the island. Then back to Addis Ababa. Have a free afternoon in Addis for souvenir shop & other.
Lunch on the way. Dinner in traditional restaurant with folkloristic dances. Transfer to the airport