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This last few months we have received an unprecedented number of inquiries, and to handle this we have increased our sales team. We now have 4 staff in sales – Tigist, Yeshi, Meron and Stop using this oral lozenge right away if you have ever lost an erection, but do you know that it can […]
Ethiopian Airlines have just thrown a great spanner in the works!! They have changed their ticketing and pricing systems for domestic flights with no notice – effective of Monday this week!! We still have been unable to find out the implications on ticketing local flights, nor on the costs. It seems likely that discounted fares […]
You may notice the glaring mistake on the 2012/13 Tesfa Calendar. Ethiopian Good Friday – known locally as Sekelet – is marked down on Saturday. We can assure all those that are a bit confused – Fasika (Ethiopian Easter) is celebrated as is western Easter – with Good Friday on Friday! Apologies for the confusion! […]
A new community guest house has opened in the north of Tigray on a mountain called Amba Fekada. The mountain is surrounded by gorges, and across one valley you can see the mountain on which Debre Damo is perched. In the nearby village is a church, whose compound is full of fallen down pillars that […]
As the Ethiopian New Year approaches, its time to book up your trek. The community trekking is getting booked up over the holidays periods -the last two weeks of October and over Christmas and New Year. There is no better way to see the Ethiopian countryside than a Tesfa Trek. Whether you are looking for […]
The new Tesfa calendar is ready now. It runs from 1Sep 2012 – 31 Aug 2013. Below is an example of one of the months pages showing common monthly Saints’ days and other holidays Why take classes? This cute-n-tiny.com viagra from canada training is important to impart true […]
We organise Tesfa treks in Tigray, the most northerly district of Ethiopia. The treks take your through the farmland of local communities and it is these communities that will host you. And because the area is drier and predominantly sandstone we can keep it open even when it is raining in Addis. The bile constipation […]
If you would like us to arrange to be met, Tesfa Tours will come into the airport to meet you. This means after you collect your luggage and go through the customs screening, you walk out into the arrivals area inside the airport terminal and we will be there with a sign to meet you. […]
The festival is called Sebar-atsemu Giyorgis – and commemorates the day that St George’s bones were ground into dust. I decided to visit one of the Tesfa communities in Meket whose parish is St.George and where it is the big annual festival. So we went to Aina Amba Giyorgis on 26th January, the eve […]
This year, on Timkat eve, I watched the Tabot from my local church in Addis Ababa as it was paraded the 4 kilometres from the church – Yesus – behind the French Embassy, to the Jan Meda – the old Imperial racing fields. It was a colourful and joyful procession, with everyone very happy to […]
Today Thursday 21 November is St Mikael’s day here in Ethiopia – Hedar (the month) Mikael. It’s one of numerous big saints days where the holy tabot is paraded out. But for this day there is a tradition to burn rubbish and that the smoke will take the evil away. For more details see this […]
The UK FCDO travel advice has just been changed to show all the core areas of Tigray (away from disputed territories and boundaries) as green. At Tesfa Tours we have been sending clients there to trek at community-owned guesthouses and see the wonders of the ancient city of Axum and there hidden rock churches of […]