Guided Day Trip to the UNESCO Heritage Site Tiya and Adadi Mariam

Heading south-west on the Jimma road, before turning due south on to the Butajira Road, you find the most important Neolithic site in Ethiopia which is Melka Kunture. . You will also visit the museum at the site. Then heading 5Kms further on the Butajira road, you will visit the beautiful rock hewn church of Adadi Mariam , which is contemporaneous with those of Lalibela. At last, you set out to Tiya, classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, where you can see the northernmost example of a peculiar type of engraved, standing stellae which stretches across parts of southern Ethiopia.