6 days 5 nights Lalibela & Danakil historical adventure tour

Day 1 · Welcome to Lalibela airport

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   Lalibela

   4 hours

   After having your lunch, your guide take you to the rock hewn churches of king lalibela and visit in that afternoon 6 or 7 churches including one of the master piece rock hewn church of St. George.

   Round 5:30 pm you will finish your tour of the day and driving back to your hotel for the sunset or you can go any place to have your dinner one of the restaurant in lalibela, overnight lalibela

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   Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

   3 hours Admission included

   After having your lunch, your guide take you to the rock hewn churches of king lalibela and visit in that afternoon 6 or 7 churches including one of the master piece rock hewn church of St. George.

   Round 5:30 pm you will finish your tour of the day and driving back to your hotel for the sunset or you can go any place to have your dinner one of the restaurant in lalibela, overnight lalibela

Sora Lodge Lalibela

Day 2 · visit the built up cave church of yemrhane krstos

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   Stop 1

   2 hours Admission included

   After having your breakfast, starting driving the northern part of lalibela with a great countryside scenery to visit one of the most fascinating cave church in Ethiopia, name Yemrhane krstos from the 11th country. This great church was built up inside the natural cave from a different material, I am sure you will definitely enjoy it very much.

   Visiting this cave church and drive back to the same route to lalibela round lunch time and you will invited to have your lunch in one of the most beautiful restaurant called Ben Ababa.

   After having your lunch continue to visiting the rest of the lalibela rock hewn churches, you will have more 4 churches and then your tour guide will talk you to one of the local community house to train you how to cooked Ethiopia food and coffee ceremony then that will be your dinner, overnight lalibela.

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   Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

   3 hours Admission included

   After having your lunch continue to visiting the rest of the lalibela rock hewn churches, you will have more 4 churches and then your tour guide will talk you to one of the local community house to train you how to cooked Ethiopia food and coffee ceremony then that will be your dinner, overnight lalibela.

Sora Lodge Lalibela

Day 3 · early in the morning drive you to Mekele

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   Mek'ele

   3 hours

   After having a early breakfast, starting driving to south east of lalibela with a beautiful landscape and scenery to mekele, of course you will have a stopping for lunch in Wolidya and round late afternoon you will be reached in Mekele, dinner will be at your hotel because in the next day you will have a big adventure in the Danakil depression, overnight in Mekele

Genfel hotel best hotel in Mekele

Day 4 · Mekelle to the Volcano

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   Danakil Depression

   3 hours Admission included

   We drive from Mekelle to – Dodom the beginning to discover Danakil depression. We start early drive to Dodom (at the base of Erta Ale). Leave from the hotel round at 07:30. This road is one of the off roads in the region. This bad road tales sometime, special the 70 km distance to passing through changing landscape of solidified lava, rock, and sand and occasional palm lined oasis. After you pass several small hamlets scattered here and there in this desert land, Dodom is about 9.5km from Erta Ale and it takes about 3 hrs trekking. Early dinner around 17:00 and trek up to Erta Ale at 20:00 hours. Camels transport all the camping materials and some food (sleeping materials like light mattresses and mat and water) to the rim of the volcano, where we spend the night watching the dramatic action of the boiling lava.. O/n camping on the mountain

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   Erta Ale

   8 hours Admission included

   We drive from Mekelle to – Dodom the beginning to discover Danakil depression. We start early drive to Dodom (at the base of Erta Ale). Leave from the hotel round at 07:30. This road is one of the off roads in the region. This bad road tales sometime, special the 70 km distance to passing through changing landscape of solidified lava, rock, and sand and occasional palm lined oasis. After you pass several small hamlets scattered here and there in this desert land, Dodom is about 9.5km from Erta Ale and it takes about 3 hrs trekking. Early dinner around 17:00 and trek up to Erta Ale at 20:00 hours. Camels transport all the camping materials and some food (sleeping materials like light mattresses and mat and water) to the rim of the volcano, where we spend the night watching the dramatic action of the boiling lava.. O/n camping on the mountain

Overnight near Erta Ale camping under star.

Day 5 · ErtaAle-HamadEla

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   Lake Assale

   one hour Admission included

   Waking up early ErtaAle -Dodom Leave back to Dodom you will reach latest at 8.00 am at the camp, after　breakfast time to relax. then drive to HamadEla 100km, picnic lunch on the way on shed of palm tree, reach HamadEla 04:30, better village with a total population about 500 people. You will see lots of camel caravans and you will have the sun set look from the very shallow salt lake Assale, overnight camping at HamadEla.

Overnight camping at HamadEla.

Day 6 · HamadEla- Dallol- Mekelle

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   Erta Ale

   2 hours Admission included

   Morning tour Drive to Ragad (Asebo), the place where the

   localities are mining salt. 1,200 km2 (460 sq mi) the Afar Depression is covered by salt, and you will Look the activity of breaking the salt from the ground, local people are cutting in to rectangular pieces and loading on camels. You drive ahead to Dallol and visit the difference landscape formed by volcanic activity; Dallol + Lake Assale + salt canon, camel caravans, follow up camel caravans and　Drive back to HamadEla for lunch and proceed to Mekele.