3-Day Lalibela Christmas (Genna) Festival Tour

Take a morning flight from Addis Ababa to Lalibela. Upon arrival at Lalibela Airport, meet your guide and transfer to your hotel. After check-in and refreshments, begin exploring the first cluster of Lalibela's rock-hewn churches, including Bete Medhane Alem, Bete Maryam, Bete Meskel, Bete Denagel, Bete Golgotha and Bete Mikael. Learn about King Lalibela and his vision of creating a New Jerusalem in Ethiopia, then admire the churches carved from solid rock and connected by tunnels, trenches and hidden passageways.

Continue exploring Lalibela's remaining churches, including Bete Emanuel, Bete Gabriel-Rufael, Bete Abba Libanos and the world-famous Bete Giyorgis, carved in the shape of a Greek cross. In the afternoon and evening, experience Genna, Ethiopia's Orthodox Christmas Festival, with thousands of pilgrims in traditional white Shamma garments, Orthodox chants and hymns, candlelight ceremonies, priests carrying colorful umbrellas and sacred crosses, spiritual processions and religious blessings.

Transfer early to Lalibela Airport for your flight back to Addis Ababa. Upon arrival, continue the Christmas celebrations at Beza Kula, where worshippers gather after the all-night Christmas vigil to welcome the dawn with prayers, hymns and joyful festivities. Depending on your departure schedule, enjoy free time for souvenir shopping or relaxation before transfer to Bole International Airport for international departure or onward travel.