Tailor-made Ethiopia Tours 2026, 2027 & 2028

The highlands of the Amhara region hold the UNESCO-listed city of Lalibela. Unlike conventional structures built from stone blocks, these churches were excavated by digging deep trenches into monolithic bedrock and then chiselling outward to reveal detailed pillars, windows, and vaulted ceilings. Biete Medhane Alem is the largest monolithic carved church in the world, while Biete Ghiorgis is carved in the shape of a perfect, isolated Greek cross and remains an active pilgrimage site for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians today.

The Simien Mountains National Park is a massive plateau deeply eroded by millions of years of rainfall, leaving behind jagged peaks, deep valleys, and sheer vertical drops of over 1,000 metres. This high-altitude ecosystem is the exclusive home of the Gelada, often called the bleeding-heart monkey due to the bright red patch of skin on their chests. They live in massive social groups of up to 500 individuals, moving calmly across alpine meadows to forage for grass.