Historic Route Tour by Air
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Tour name: Historic Route Tour by Air
Tour code: HTR-101
Destinations: Bahir Dar, Gondar, Lalibela, Axum & Addis
Duration: 7 days/6 nights
Starting point: Addis
Ending point: Addis
Day 1. Addis
You will be welcomed by your guide/a member of Magma Flow Team at Bole International airport Addis and transfer to your hotel. If arrival time is in the morning, after check-in your hotel and quick refreshment, you will have Addis city tour or short excursion to sites around Addis which includes Tiya Archeological Site, Adadi Maryam Church…
Overnight hotel in Addis
Day 2. Addis – Bahir Dar
– Morning, fly to Bahir Dar, pick up from airport and check-in your hotel/lodge.
– Take a boat trip on Lake Tana.
Visit:
- ZegePenninsula
- AzuwaMaryam
- UraKidaneMehret
- DebreMaryam
– Afternoon, visit Blue Nile Falls & walk around to enjoy the beautiful views of the area.
– Sunset on the best viewpoint of the Lake.
Overnight hotel/lodge in Bahir Dar
Day 3. Bahir Dar – Gondar
– Morning, drive to Gondar.
– Afternoon, visit sites in Gondar:
- The Royal Enclosure
- Fasilidass Pool, still used for Timket celebrations
- Ras Gimb Palace Museum
- Debre Birhan Selassie church
Overnight hotel/lodge in Gondar
Day 4. Gondar – Lalibela
– Morning, fly to Lalibela, pick up from airport and check-in your hotel/lodge.
– Afternoon, visit Yemrahanna Kristos Church or Monastery of Ashton Maryam.
Overnight hotel/lodge in Lalibela
Day 5. Lalibela
Morning, visit half of the 11 rock-hewn churches (Northwest cluster):
- BetMedhaneAlem
- BetMaryam
- BetMeskel
- BetDanaghel
- BetMikael
- BetGolgotha (entry not permitted for women).
Afternoon, visit the rest half (Southeast cluster):
- BetGabriel-Rufael
- BetMerkorios
- BetAmanual
- BetAbbaLibanos
- BetGiyorgis until the sunset (the most famous of all)
Overnight hotel/lodge in Lalibela
Day 6. Lalibela – Axum
– Morning, fly to Axum, pick up from airport and check-in your hotel.
– Afternoon, visit sites in Axum:
- The famous Obelisks
- Archeological museum
- Queen of Shebas Bath
- Ezanas enscription
- King Kalebs tomb
- King Bazens tomb
- Queen of Shebas Palace
- Mary of Zion church, where the Ark of the Covenant is kept.
Overnight hotel in Axum
Day 7. Axum – Addis
– Morning, fly to Addis, pick up from airport and check-in your hotel.
– Afternoon, visit:
- Panoramic view of the city from Entoto Mountain.
- Entoto Maryam Church & Museum
- The city’s largest market for traditional clothes.
- The ethnographical museum, with great displays of the many cultures of Ethiopia, housed in the former palace of Haile Selassie.
- National Museum, where Ethiopias oldest resident, Lucy, is housed.
- The Selassie (Trinity) church, one of the most important churches of Addis Ababa and the final resting place of Haile Selassie, to whom there is a dedicated museum on site.
- Merkato, Africas largest open-air market.
– Evening, cultural dinner invitation at a traditional restaurant with local folkloric dances.
– Transfer to Bole International airport Addis to fly back home or your hotel for overnight.