8-Day Authentic Ethiopian Coffee Farm and Photography

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Arrival in Addis Ababa and drive to Yirgalem

Welcome to join the 8 days Ethiopia tour packages! Upon your arrival at Addis Ababa Airport and you will baggage claim, after collecting your checked bags, where you will be meet by Finot Tour Ethiopia tour guide or representative, who will assist you with your transfer to the car.
After breakfast, you will drive to Yirgalem. Your destination today is Aregash Lodge nestled between coffee fields and lush vegetation. The bamboo-thatched tukuls are built in the style of traditional regional Sidama village houses. The nearby forest is home to a diverse and prolific flora, which harbors over 100 species of birds and mammals. The coffee plantation and the nightly visits (and sounds) of Hyenas are additional attractions to be found in the surrounding area.

Main Destination:

Yirga Alem (Town)

Accommodation:

Aregash Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located in Yirga Alem (Town)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Drive to Yirgacheffee

After an early breakfast, drive through a very green landscape to reach Yirgachefee village where one of the most popular coffee beans in the Ethiopia is harvested. Here visit Yirgacheffee coffee cultivating and processing center where the best coffee brand for local and export use. This region in Ethiopia that is best known for her coffee supply both within and outside the country. It is located in the highlands of the country and with the numerous coffee farms that are found in the region, it is worth the visit. It's the area where you can visit several Coffee Cooperatives and plantations.

Main Destination:

Yirga Chefe (Town)

Accommodation:

Amnen Hotel

• Budget hotel located near Yirga Chefe (Town)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Visit Yirgacheffee drive to Hawassa

After breakfast, you will drive to the Yirgacheffee Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union. Enjoy a guided tour walking through the coffee farms. Then have the opportunity to participate in the daily chores and duties of a local farmer, each person paired with a local worker, learning by doing and understanding what life on the farm means. The coffee cultivation practice here is organic and the coffee trees are managed by hand and fertilized with organic matter. Also learn about the washed coffee process and the sun dry coffee process. The taste of the coffee that is produced from the Yirgacheffee is believed to be the best and most believe it is through the way it is processed. When the beans have been sorted, they are soaked and fermented for three days before being put out for brewing. Yigacheffee’s Coffee, fragrant and floral with wine and fruit overtones, is one of the most prized. After, visit join some of the local farmers for a Yirgacheffee Coffee Ceremony. Drive to Hawassa.

Main Destination:

Awasa (City)

Accommodation:

Haile Resort Hawassa

• Mid-range resort located in Awasa (City)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Drive to Jimma

Today's a full-day long but scenic journey as you drive to Jimma. On the way you will pass through land, which produces the best banana, papaya, apple and mango in Ethiopia for the world market. Lunch break at Sodo and continued driving to Jimma. The views in this remote part of Ethiopia are simply spectacular. The drive affords some excellent photo opportunities of the jagged mountains and the Gibe Valley. The route is dotted with intermittent mountain hamlets that add to the splendor of the scenery. Overnight stay at Jimma.

Main Destination:

Jimma (Town)

Accommodation:

Awetu Grand Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located in Jimma (Town)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Drive to Bonga and Mankira

After breakfast, you will drive tgo Bonga Town. When you arrive Bonga you will trek to Mankira village, a specific area where coffee Arabica believed to have first discovered by a legendary goat herder known as 'Kaldi'. Here you will see forest coffee plantations growing in the wild. More visit of cooperative association and coffee processing centers. En route stop at the ancient church of Adaracha Medhanealem and the Gurguto natural Bridge. Visit the Bonga forest reserve, which sprawls on the surrounding hillsides. These are among the last remaining subtropical moist forests of any significant size to be found in Ethiopia, and renowned for their abundance of sustainable timber forest products, coffee forest, cardamom, forest pepper and honey.

Main Destination:

Bonga

Accommodation:

Bonga Guest House

• Budget guest house located the park

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Drive Bebeka Coffee Plantation

After breakfast, you will drive to Bebeka Coffee Plantation. Bebeka coffee farms are known to be the largest in Ethiopia and they have numerous coffee farms that make up the coffee estate. These two estates provide tourist with enough knowledge about coffee and the whole process of production straight from the gardens to the brewing machines. Babeka coffee plantation which is the oldest and largest coffee estate in the whole country and covers a space of over 93 square kilometers. It is very hard to get a tour here unless when you have a letter that announces your arrival from the coffee plantation enterprise. This is the only way you will be allowed you will enter into the farm and due to its large size. You will need a car that can drive though the farm. After visiting, you will drive to Mizan Teferi.

Main Destination:

Mizan Teferi (Town)

Accommodation:

Salayish The Grand Hotel and Spa

• Mid-range hotel located in Mizan Teferi (Town)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Drive to Jimma

In the morning after breakfastz you drive back to Jimma. Depending on arrival you can continue a visit to the Jimma attractions. Visit the historical palace of Sultan Abba Jifar (1853 – 1925) that is standing at Jiren. Still stands with its colorful architectural beauty. And continue your visit to Jimma Museum that displays most of the historical materials of King Abba Jifar, his kingdom and cultural objects of the local Oromo people and that of the other ethnic groups around Kaffa.

Main Destination:

Jimma (Town)

Accommodation:

Awetu Grand Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located in Jimma (Town)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Drive to Addis Ababa

In the morning, you will have breakfast and drive back to Addis Ababa. You will have lunch at Woliso. You will arrive in Addis Ababa late afternoon and you will do some shopping for souvenirs.
In the evening, farewell party dinner invitation by Finot Tour Ethiopia with cultural dinner and traditional special dinner and local drinks to experience Ethiopia’s cultural meals and drinks. Here you will enjoy and experience several tribal dances. After farewell dinner party, we transfer you to Bole International Airport for international departure.

Main Destination:

Addis Ababa (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.