Lalibela and Dallol

Tour code  1012/G

Rock-Hewn Churches & Dallol  13 days 12 nights

• Day 00 Arrive in Addis Ababa from Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, USA,
  

  Lalibela

• Day 1 city tour Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s sprawling capital in the highlands bordering the Great Rift Valley, is the country’s commercial and cultural hub. It’s National Museum exhibits prehistoric fossils, including replicas of the famous early hominid known as Lucy, along with Ethiopian art and traditional crafts. The burial place of the 20th-century Emperor Haile Selassie, copper-domed Holy Trinity Cathedral, is a neo-baroque architectural landmark.
• Day 2 Drive through Senbete has a small, but very entertaining and colorful market, worth a visit.The market in Senbete, two hours south of Kombolcha, occurs on Sundays. From all over the area, people are traveling to this small village, to sell or buy, or just to meet. The market is a lot smaller than its famous counterpart in Bati, or even compared to Kombolcha,  but very colorful, thanks to Oromo women with plentiful silver jewelry, bright dresses, and brilliant headscarves.
  drive to Kombolcha overnight Hotel
• Day 3 Drive to  Lalibela the rock-hewn churches. Many of these churches are free-standing, all the rock around it removed, then the inside of the remaining monolith opened up, hollowed out, and finally exquisitely finished, with door openings, windows, arches, pillars, decorated with reliefs and frescos. Like a real church,  but then out of a single piece of rock. Quite an extraordinary sight, and certainly ranking among the great architectural achievements of the world. The churches of Lalibela are alive, they are actively being used by the local people, and by pilgrims and spiritual place. And unique in the world. overnight hotel
  

  Lalibela

   

• Day 4 Visit the rock-hewn churches there are two main groups of churches – to the North of the river Jordan: Biete Medhani Alem  (House of the Savior of the World), Biete  Mariam (House of Mary), Biete  Maskal (House of the Cross), Biete Denagel (House of Virgins), Biete Golgotha Mikael (House of Golgotha Mikael) and to the South of the river, Biete Emanuel (House of Emmanuel), Biete Qeddus Mercoreus (House of St. Mercurio’s), Biete Abba Libanos (House of Abbot Libanos), Biete Gabriel Raphael (House of Gabriel Raphael), and Biete Lehem (House of Holy Bread). The eleventh church, Biete Ghiorgis (House of St. George), is isolated from the others but connected by a system of trenches overnight same hotel
• Day 5 Drive to Mekle It is a 360km drive from Lalibela to Mekele a trip that we make in one long day. you will enjoy the beautiful hills of Ethiopia. Very impressive views, especially in the sunlight at the end of the afternoon. After a long day, we will arrive Mekele overnight Hotel
• Day 6 From Mekele to Amedela where you will start One of the world’s hottest places, but with a surprising number of natural wonders. It is not only the lowest point on the African continent the hottest place on earth and hottest temperature ever measured, at 64.4.Danakil is the heart of theAfar region, bordering Eritrea, but more than that, it is a geographical and geological museum, complete with an emerald-colored salt lake fed by hot springs (Lake Africa), a working volcano (Erta Ale), razor-sharp rocks of salt as well as an actively mined salt deposits, and the most spectacular sulphur deposits . Overnight Amedela
• Day 7 Hamd Ela – Dodom. We start early to drive to Dodom (at the base of Erta Ale). Leave after an early breakfast, possible at 06:30. This is may be one of the worst roads in the world. We will start to explore the surrounding area, at Erta Ale  Camels are the most transport of all the camping materials, food, Water etc. Here we spend the night watching the action of the lava Playing live.overnight camping
• Day 8 After breakfast we will start the tour Ragad (Asebo) see the salt miners in the Danakil depression work under very tough conditions, in which temperatures hardly drop below 50-60º, even early in the morning. Around 2,000 camels and 1,000 donkeys come to the salt flat every day to transport the salt tiles to Berahile, about 75 km away. Only male camels are used for the transport, which takes up to three days.
• Day 9  Drive to Semera or Logia via Lake Afdera The emerald-colored Lake Afderaa huge expanse of salt water in the middle of nowhere. Well, except that on the edge of the lake another salt works has developed. With the salt works, a village has developed, too, all corrugated iron and bamboo mats, and satellite dishes. It is nice under a few palm trees, next to a hot spring. Beautiful overnight camp
• Day 10 Drive to Awash National park. This is one of the few places in Ethiopia where some larger mammals, in numbers, in between the acacia shrubs and dry savanna. Gazelles, and especially the beautiful Oryx, as well as Kudu and what I think are Waterbuck, are crossing our road, or rather, the park tracks. Plenty of birds, as well, of course. The safari lodge inside the park provides a good view of the gorge of the Awash River, and a waterfall – as well as crocodiles.overnight camp at the national park.
• Day 11 Drive to fen-tali hot spring In the northern part of the park there are hot springs (filwuha in Amharic). This area offers scenic beauty due to the special vegetation structure dominated by the Doum palms. Additionally, it can be used for swimming in about 45° C warm water, which is commonly enjoyed by a lot of visitors from the escarpment, one can overlook the doum palm forest; Hamadryas baboons, warthog and
  

  Ethiopian antelopes

  Defassa waterbuck can be seen frequently. In the swamps around the pools, hippos can be found.and late in the Afternoon game driving in the park

• Day 12 Drive to Harar is a delight. A walled city with five gates, curving and climbing, up- and downhill.  There are no less than 90 small mosques inside, in green and white, or blue and white.  Many of the houses have been painted in similarly bright colors as we saw in Dire Dawa, pink, or orange. But even more colorful are the people, many of Somali ethnic origin, their long dresses and wrapped in cloths. Written records indicate that spotted hyenas have been present in the walled Ethiopian city of Harar for at least 500 years, where they sanitise the city by feeding on its organic refuse, The practice of regularly feeding them did not begin until the 1960s. The first to put it into practice was a farmer who began to feed hyenas in order to stop them attacking his livestock, with his descendants having continued the practice.Some of the hyena men give each hyena a name they respond to and call to them using a “hyena dialect”, a mixture of English and Oromo. The hyena men feed the hyenas by mouth, using pieces of raw meat provided by spectators.The feeding of hyenas in Harar originated during a 19th-century overnight Same hotel
• Day 13 Drive to Dire-Daw Created in 1897 after the establishment of Alfred Ilg’s Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia, Dire Dawa—originally known by its period French spelling Dire-Daoua grew up at the site of a former village known as Addis Harar (Amharic for “New Harar”) upon the line’s arrival in 1902. The company (which went bankrupt four years later) was already having financial difficulty and Ilg received permission from Emperor Menelik II not to complete the expensive climb to nearby Harar at its higher elevation. Instead, Addis Harar served as the terminus for the line linking the area with the French port of Djibouti and the potentially confusing name was changed to that of another nearby village, Dire Dawa. Harar’s governor Ras Makonnen then linked the two cities with a new road.overnight hotel
• Day 14 After breakfast flies back to Addis Ababa it is your last day in the country we will go to Merkato for  shopping at night we will have farewell dinner in one of the traditional restaurant and departures

Note: -We can Arrange HELICOPTER excursion from Addis Ababa or From Mekele to Ertale Volcano and back for

An unforgettable trip can be done. THIS trip will be made advanced

booking and payment will be 100% pay in Advance.

What it include

• Accommodations in Ful Board  basis as per the program
• Meals including nonalcoholic drinks (Tea, coffee, a bottle of water or soft drinks).
• Transfers from and to the airport,
• International  flight tickets
• All Entrance fee as per the program
• Local guide fees where its Mandatory
• Toyota Land cruiser with fuel / Minibus
• English speaking driver guide
• Driver allowance
• Government tax

What not  include

• Any alcoholic drinks
• Tips and personal expenses
• Photography and video camera fees.
• Anything which is not mentioned under the service included part is not include