Top Axum Cultural Tours

Experience history with this tour examining what remains of the Axumite Civilization. Having occupied a wide area of Ethiopia's Tigray Plateau, this civilization has left a bountiful legacy of relics, ruins and monuments that date from the 6th and 7th centuries. Highlights of the tour include Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, which is understood by some belief systems to contain the Ark of the Covenant. Finish your day by exploring the ancient city of Axum.

Discover the most amazing landscape and churches in the northern part of Ethiopia. With no less than 120 Rock-Hewn Churches in Tigray, organized in different clusters, you could spend weeks in this area and still not discover everything. Many are stunning, and you can only cover a few of those in the Wukro Cluster and the Gheralta Cluster on these two days

Axum was the center of the marine trading power known as the Aksumite Empire, which predated the earliest mentions in Roman-era writings. Around 356 CE, its ruler was converted to Christianity by Frumentius. Later, under the reign of Emperor Kaleb, Axum was a quasi-ally of Byzantium against the Sasanian Empire which had adopted Zoroastrianism. The historical record is unclear, with ancient church records the primary contemporary sources.