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Day 1	Arrival Addis Ababa, Afternoon city tour: the National Musium and Entoto Mountains with views
Day 2	Fly Bahir Dar, visit Bezait palace and view over Blue Nile falls and Tana. Afternoon boat trip on Tana Lake to admire 2-3 monastries with very interesting architectural construction and paintings some of Ura Kidane Mehret and Mahal Zeghie Gyorgis
Day 3	Morning drives to admire the Blue Nile Falls, back for lunch, afternoon drive to Gondar
Day 4	Visit the castles compound, King Fasil’s Bath and Debre Birhan Selassie church (light of Trinity) with wonderful murals, Qusuqam church, Queen Mentewab palace and more
Day 5	Fly Lalibela afternoon visit the first group of the rock churches
Day 6	Morning, mule excursion to Asheten mariam, with very nice view through villages’ afternoon the second group of the rock churches
Day 7	Fly to Addis and lunch there. Drive to Langano Rift Valley Lake at night Wenney lodge or other
Day 8	Continue to Arba-minch admiring Wolayta people, their villages and very nice views. Afternoon ascend Chencha hills for the Dorze village to see their culture, work of weavings, cultivation of false banana from which they extract traditional bread (Kocho), their 18ms high houses and more. Dinner and at night Swaynes hotel (3*) with remarkable views over the Chamo lakes and Abayta lakes and the Nechsar Park
Day 9	Morning Nechsar Park, for an early morning game drive. Here you can see wild animals i.e. dominated by Zebras, it’s also possible to see the endemic Swain’s heartbeats, greater and lesser Kudus, different gazelles and more. Afternoon boat trip over Lake Chamo and encounter the huge hippo colonies and biggest crocodiles in Africa (as some says in the world 6-7ms long). Meals and at night Swains hotel (3*)
Day 10	Drive to Jinka, on the way admires Derashe, Konso Ari, Benna and Tsemay tribes with their respective villages. Konso are famous for the agricultural work with terracing culture at night Jinka local hotel or camp
Day 11	Drive to Mago national park and excursion at Mursi people villages at night National park camping
Day 12	Cross Karo people region and visit their villages of Korcho, with also very nice views over Omo River. Drive to Turmi for dinner and at night Evangadi campsite and lodge. (Camp pr fixed tents)
Day 13	Visit Hammer people villages, culture and possibly their dances. If possible we try to show the unique ceremonies of marriage, with slashing of woman, bull jumping, and more. If Mon or Sat visits market of Hamer, Kara and Dassanech people here or near by Dmeka’s village
Day 14	Drive to Arba-minch through Erbore people village and afternoon visit Konso people village, dinner and at night Swaynes hotel Arba-minch
Day 15	Drive back to Addis Ababa
Day 16	Departure