Duration:11 nights /12 days
Mode of transport: surface
Cultural tour to the untouched originality

Day 1 Arrival/ Addis Ababa. Arrival at Bole International Airport (Addis Ababa) where you will be met by L`Arada Ethiopian Tours representative and transferred to your Hotel in Addis Ababa after check in to the hotel . City tour(Sightseeing tour that includes all futures of Addis Overnight hotel

 

Day 2: Drive to Arbaminch, on the way enjoys the superb landscape of south Ethiopia.On this day you will visit Addis-Melka Kunture Archeological sites. The Melka-Kunture Prehistoric Site lies near the Awash River Gorge is one of the most important Neolithic sites in Ethiopia, where hand axes and various other implements have been found. Tiya is a UNESCO heritage, where of a peculiar type of engraved, grave marking standing stele, believed to have been erected between the 12th and 14th centuries stand. Remains of young people aged between 18 - 30 have been discovered here which had been buried in fetal positions. Overnight at paradise lodge Arbaminch.or same hotel.

Day 3 Arba Minch - excursion to Lake Chamo - chencha
Morning you will have a boat excursion on Lake Chamo to see the crocodiles market (you will find oodles of fat and famous crocodiles sunning themselves) offers Africa’s best crocodile displays and the sniffling hippos and the paradise of birds.In the afternoon, you will visit the village of chencha. 2500 m up into the mountains & visit the Dorze ethnic group with their unique home building style and traditional weaving. (Visit their market if it is a market day), drive to Arbaminch .overnight Hotel overnight Arbaminchparadise lodge

DAY 4- Arbaminch-Turmi- after breakfast drive from Arbaminch to Turmi (the ideal place to visit karo, dasenech, gnangatom and the hammer tribes) and on the way visit the Erbore tribe with their untouched culture. Overnight in Buska lodge .

DAY 5- Turmi-Omorate- Turmi- after breakfast drive to Omorate to visit gnangatom and dasenech tribes. After visit drive back to Turmi. In the afternoon, if you are lucky, visit bull jumping ceremony (the right of passage to manhood for hammer and Bena tribes) and in the evening visit the hammer people with their evangadi night dancing. Overnight in Buska lodge / Turmi lodge

DAY 6- Turmi-Jinka - after breakfast drives to Jinka via Dimeka (at Dimeka there is colorful market on Saturday). On the way visit Bena, Tsemay and Ari tribes. Overnight stay will be in Jinka resort.

DAY 7- Jinka-Mursi-Jinka- this day you will drive to the Mursi village through Mago national park to visit the Mursi tribe. The Mursi people are famous for their women putting lip plate on their lower lip and men for their stick fighting (donga). After visit drive back to Jinka and Overnight in Jinka resort.

DAY 8- Jinka-Konso on this day you will drive to konso on the way visit the market of keyafer and different tribes of Ari,Bena,& Tsemay overnight konso Kanta lodge .

Day 9 Konso- Yabelo- visit the konsotribe who are famous for terracing farming and protection of the land and are rewarded by UNESCO as a world heritage center and Gesegio with its bizarre landscape of entrancing sand formations is the most famous, because of the pinnacles resembling sky scrapers the town is now Known as <NEW YORK> also visit the Konso village Gamole with the Konso Royal family.you will visit also the Konso cemetery with the wooden totem poles. Drive to yabeloo overnight Yabello motel or in the Borena lodge in Yabello.

Day 10Yabello - El sod - Yabello (300 km)
On this day you will have excursion to the South to the salt crater El sod.
Then we go back to the North and visit the "singing fountain" of the Borana.
On the way back to Yabello, we will visit a village of the tribe of the Borana. Accommodation in the Yabello motel or in the Borena lodge in Yabello.

Day 11- Yabelo- Yirgalem- after breakfast drive from Yabelo to yirgalem. En route visit the Yabelo sanctuary and natural coffee plantation and brief description about coffee Abyssinica. Then keep driving to yirgalem and overnight stay will be in Aregash lodge

DAY 12- Yirgalem-Addis. Drive to Addis Ababa via the rift valley lakes region visit the twin lakes park lunch at Langanoo. In the evening there will be a farewell party in one of best traditional restaurants with folkloric dances. According to your flight schedule you will be transferred to the air port and departure to home.

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