Cultural Tour Ethiopia: Lalibela Extension

This short cultural extension to Lalibela, one of Ethiopia’s most sacred sites, is a perfect complement to our 19-day Complete Abyssinia birding tour, where you would have had an amazing diversity of birds and animals. Lalibela’s impressive, monolithic churches are carved out of a massive bedrock of basalt and will leave you in awe of the incredible attention to detail and size. The cave church of Yemrehana Krestos will also be visited, which offers something different from the monolithic churches of Lalibela. Of course, our binoculars will never be too far away while we are enjoying the rich history of the area, and while exploring the churches we are likely to find a number of special birds, including Bearded Vulture, White-winged Cliff Chat, White-billed Starling, and many Palearctic migrants making their way back north.

This extension to our 19-day Complete Abyssinia birding tour can also be booked as a stand-alone tour.

A typical scene inside one of Lalibela’s many rock-hewn churches.