Ethiopia, Tigray
During 2010 Villageways will be working with a local community development agency to create an exciting new community tourism project in this wonderful part of Ethiopia. The rock-hewn churches of Tigray remain one of the worlds 'best-kept secrets', described by some as the greatest of the historical-cultural heritages of the Ethiopian people'. Set these incredible, almost inaccessible rock buildings in their context of the sweeping Tigraian Highlands and you are confronted with a beautiful, unique landscape to explore.
The Village Communities of Tigray
The communties belong to a proud hospitable people. We will be working with them to assist the creation of a quality, sustainable community tourism project. With guest-houses to be integrated into their village communities, guides, house-keepers and porters to be trained they will be able to offer great holidays for their guests and achieve a vital new income stream for themselves.
You can visit now by booking our Abyssinian Adventures holiday. As well as focusing on the community tourism project around Meket in Wollo Province, this holiday includes a 3 day visit into Tigray.
You stay at the wonderful Gehralta Lodge, a comfortable, impeccably designed small hotel. Created and run by an Italian colleague, who returned to his childhood native land to help create tourism infrastructure, this marvellous place is embedded in the community. From here visit the extraordinary rock churches and, as it progresses, visit the new communiity project in creation.
You can visit now by booking our Abyssinian Adventures holiday. As well as focusing on the community tourism project around Meket in Wollo Province, this holiday includes a 3 day visit into Tigray.
You stay at the wonderful Gehralta Lodge, a comfortable, impeccably designed small hotel. Created and run by an Italian colleague, who returned to his childhood native land to help create tourism infrastructure, this marvellous place is embedded in the community. From here visit the extraordinary rock churches and, as it progresses, visit the new communiity project in creation.
