Visit Wolayta Ethiopia

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Visit Wolayta Ethiopia

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Wolayta Sodo , Ethiopia

Wolayta, Ethiopia is a beautiful green land still not completely opened for tourism activity, which potentially offers a great variety of attractions for tourists. Actually, a visit to Wolayta attractions and villages are highly requested by the tourists and tour operators but has not been readily available.

The main tourism attractions of Wolayta are: nature, culture, heritage, anthropology and archeological sites.

To discover the peculiarity and indigenous of Wolayta culture, the biodiversity of the nature (false banana, coffee, & roots crops) & the archeological heritage of the region (stelae park) and the Cave & Cave paintings.

To find out unique, different and alternative destinations such as rural areas, forest areas, unknown areas, caves & hot spring areas, and farms.

To discover all the details of the coffee cycle production from coffee fields through all the stages of processing up to the roasting stage.

Ajora Falls
A worthwhile diversion for those driving between Hosaina and Sodo are the scenic Ajora Falls, which lie to the west of the main road. The falls actually consist of two separate but parallel waterfalls on the Soke and Ajacho rivers, set perhaps 100m apart and plunging in tandem over a cliff about 100m high into the thickly wooded gorge formed by the Soke River, a tributary of the Omo River. 

The waterfall can be reached along a 25km turn-off west from the Sodo road about 65km South of Hosaina, and a few kilometers north of the town of Areka.

The viewpoint, easily accessible from the main road, is at the top of a steep cliff facing the waterfalls. A very steep and slippery footpath runs to the base of the gorge, and is used by locals, but be warned that stories abound of people falling their death – even the sure-footed local livestock sometimes plunges off. 

At the top, an easy walk leads to the forest-fringed bank of the Ajacho River. There's a friendly traditional Wolayta village of beehive huts here too. The distance from Areka to Sodo is only 28km along the new asphalt road, so the falls could be visited as a round trip from there.

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