Day Trip Bahir Dar, Lake Tana and Blue Nile Falls Tours

Day Trip Bahir Dar, Lake Tana and Blue Nile Falls Tours

By Simien Mountain Trekking and Tours

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Overview

Best of Bahir Dar in One Day tour offers a chance to experience the roaring falls of Blue Nile and lake tana churches and monasteries of considerable historical and cultural interest Blue Nile falls and Lake tana monasteries

Activity location

Lake Tana
- Ground floor from Blue Nile Hotel,
- 6000, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Meeting/Redemption Point

Lake Avenue Hotel-Bahirdar
- 1286, ባሕር ዳር, አማራ, Ethiopia

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Day Trip Bahir Dar, Lake Tana and Blue Nile Falls Tours

9h
English

Pickup included

Travellers

Language options: English

Starting time: 8:30

Price details

RM 593.92 x 2 AdultsRM 1,187.84

Total

What's included, what's not

Admission fee for monastery churches
Boat Service
Airport pick up and departure
English Speaking Guide
Air-conditioned vehicle
lunch
Government Tax
Bottled water
Admission fee for Lake Tana Blue Nile falls
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Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Lake Tana

4h
Admission ticket included

In the morning travel by private boat to Ura Kidane Mehret Ethiopian Orthodox Church, located on the Zege peninsula around Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The most attractive church in the Lake Tana region founded in the 14th century although the present circular church dates from the 16th century Its interior is decorated with numerous murals painted between 100 and 250 years ago. The church has its treasury in a nearby outbuilding, which contains the richly embroidered robes of Negus Tekle Haymanot and his wife Laqetch Gegre Mehdin, as well as the crowns of Emperor Yohannes IV, Emperor Tewodros II, Negus Tekle Haymanot, and Emperor Tekle Giyorgis. then travel to see hippos at the mouth of the Blue Nile River. Keep your eyes open for the spectacular birdlife.

Blue Nile Falls

5h
Admission ticket included

After lunch, travel by private van about 40 minutes to the Blue Nile Falls on the Blue Nile river known as Tis Abay in Amharic, meaning "great smoke". It is on the upper course of the river, about 30 km downstream from the town of Bahir Dar and Lake Tana. The falls are one of Ethiopia's best known tourist attractions.The falls are estimated to be between 37 and 45 meters high, consisting of four streams that originally varied from a trickle in the dry season to over 400 meters wide in the rainy season. Regulation now reduces the variation. The Blue Nile Falls isolate the ecology of Lake Tana from the ecology of the rest of the Nile, and this isolation has played a role in the evolution of the endemic fauna of the

Location

Activity location

Lake Tana
- Ground floor from Blue Nile Hotel,
- 6000, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Meeting/Redemption Point

Lake Avenue Hotel-Bahirdar
- 1286, ባሕር ዳር, አማራ, Ethiopia

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