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10 Days 9 Nights
Daily Tour
Unlimited
English
10 days · Addis Ababa, Lalibela, Axum, Gondar, Simien Mountains · from $3,380 per person
In 1896 an Ethiopian army met an Italian one at Adwa and destroyed it. That single fact reorganised how the world talked about Africa, and it is why Ethiopia carries the meaning it does for Black people everywhere — from Marcus Garvey to Rastafari to the flag colours half the continent adopted afterwards.
Eleven churches carved downward out of solid rock in the twelfth century, still in daily use, still full of priests and pilgrims. Bete Giyorgis, cut as a cross into the ground, is one of the great works of African architecture and nothing prepares you for standing over it.
The Axumite empire traded with Rome and India and minted its own coinage. The stelae field still stands. The Chapel of the Tablet claims to hold the Ark of the Covenant, and you will hear that claim made seriously, by the people who make it.
The castle complex at Gondar — an African royal city of stone-built palaces from the 1600s. Then two days in the Simien Mountains, where gelada troops move across the escarpment in their hundreds.
Included: all internal flights on the northern circuit, 9 nights accommodation, daily breakfast and 7 dinners, all entrances and church fees, national park fees and scout, English-speaking Ethiopian guide throughout, airport transfers.
Not included: international flights, Ethiopia e-visa, insurance, gratuities.
Airport transfer, rest, welcome dinner with traditional music and an orientation to the route.
The National Museum and Lucy, the Ethnological Museum, Holy Trinity Cathedral, and Merkato. Afternoon session on Adwa and Ethiopian sovereignty.
Morning flight north. Afternoon at the north-western cluster of rock-hewn churches.
The south-eastern cluster and Bete Giyorgis. Afternoon visit to a highland village and a coffee ceremony.
Flight to Axum. The stelae field, the Queen of Sheba's bath and palace ruins.
St Mary of Zion, the Chapel of the Tablet, the Axumite museum, and the tombs of the kings.
Flight to Gondar. The Fasil Ghebbi royal enclosure and Debre Berhan Selassie church.
Drive into the Simien National Park. Escarpment walking, gelada troops, and the view from Sankaber.
Morning in the park, afternoon flight back to Addis. Farewell dinner.
Breakfast, last shopping, airport transfer.
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