Tour Code: ITO-403/15
Tour Name: Combinaison tour
Duration: 12 days/11 nights
Transport: surface
Day 1 – Arrive at Addis Ababa
Arrive in Addis Ababa welcome by our staff at the airport, and then transfer to your hotel. After lunch start your city tour.
Day 2 – Drive to Jimma
After breakfast, drive to the southwestern highlands. On your route you will reward very colorful country side of Ethiopia. The southwestern region is quite distinct from other regions in Ethiopia. Here you’ll see a mixture of broad grasslands, terraced hillsides and broad rivers and forests. The area is famous for coffee and Kaffa (the province) is said to be where the original wild coffee was found. Jima is the commercial centre for the coffee product in this region, check in to hotel.
Day 3 – Drive to MizanTeferi – Bebeka
Pack an overnight bag and head out to MizanTefari and the Bebeke Coffee Plantation (30k from MizanTefari). Bebeka Coffee Plantation covers some 6,000 hectares and is the largest and oldest Coffee Plantation in Ethiopia. There will be a tour of the plantation which will include the organic coffee plantation and the experimental spice and fruit plantations. Beehives have been established and the honey is highly recommended.
Overnight in the bebeka guesthouse – a comfortable lodge set in the plantation and home to a wide variety of birdlife. Explore the surrounding forest before dining in the canteen.
Day 4 – Drive from Bebeka to Bonga
Drive via Wushwush Tea plantation to Bonga, town in the south western of Jimma. Bonga is found upon a hill in the upper Barta Valley and its altitude is 1750 above sea level. Overnight: -Guest house/Hotel.
Day 5 – Drive to Jimma
After breakfast here you will have half day hiking in Bonga surrounding hills with local guide.
Visiting caves, waterfalls, natural bridges, hot springs and natural forest (500Km.sq) the last subtropical moist forest, around the depart Bonga. After lunch drive to Jimma, check in to Hotel.
Day 6- Drive from JImma to Arba Minch
After breakfast drive to Arba Minch via Chida-Sodo in route visit Oromo and Wolayita village arrive in Arba Minch, check in hotel/resort.
Day 7 – Excursion to Nechisar National Park and lake Chamo
In the morning, you will visit Nech Sar National Park famous for its wild animal, birds and plant collections, you will rewarded by the stunning view over the two Rift valley lakes Abaya and Chamo, found in the park. In the afternoon go for boat ride on Lake Chamo to view the hippo, Crocodile market and offshore birds much more.
Day 8 – Drive to Jinka and excursion to Mursi tribes
In the Morning drive to Jinka. If it is a Thursday, you will visit the colorful market of the Benna, Tsemay, Hammer, and Ari tribes at Keyafer on your way, 42 Kms before you reach Jinka. We enjoy spectacular scenery as the road crosses soft rolling hills with dark red soil and plentiful crops and woods.after check in hotel/resort and have lunch drive to Mago National park to visit the Mursi tribes, who are the most famous for their most fascinating cultural traits such as lip clay insertion to enhance beauty and body painting.
Day 9– Drive to Turmi
Drive to Turmi via Dimeka village the largest town of Hammer people; you will see the big and very colorful weekly Saturday Market of the Hamar, Bena, and Tsemai tribes. Later in the afternoon you will reach Turmi, for overnight at resort/camping. In the evening your guide will organize the beautiful dance called ‘Evangadi.
Day 10 – Drive to Arbaminch
On the way, visit the Erbore and Konso tribes. Make sure to observe the Konso land terracing culture which is 6000 years and one of the world heritage site in Ethiopia which registered by UNESCO, overnight hotel/resort.
Day 11- Drive to Hawassa
En route visit Dorze and Halaba village check in hotel/resort after relax late afternoon walk around lake called (Fikir Hayik) along the lake shore.
Day 12- Drive to Addis Ababa
In the morning visit the Fish Market then drive a head to the Abijata and Shalla National park, the two Lakes are known as the feeding and nesting ground of the Grate flamingos, here you will encounter very magnificent view over the two lakes, hot spring and Ostrich farm at the Head quarter of the national park. After the visit drive to Addis early dinner fly back home.