Excursion to Melka Kuntre, Tiya and Adadi Mariam

Melka Kuntre, Stone Age site (between 1.5 and 1.8 Million years old), contains many samples of Stone Age tools of the early Homo sapiens. The collections are results of the excavations of the last four decades. The samples are well exhibited in show rooms and there is very good scientific explanation about Stone Age tools in general and the site in particular.

You will drive about 83 km to you will visit the archaeological sites of Tiya (ancient stele field and UNESCO World Heritage site) remarkable for its large stone pillars, many of which bear some form of decoration.

Adadi Mariam, also lies along this road and it is the only rock hewn church to exist as this region. The church is not carefully carved as the rock-hewn churches in Lalibela but it has a lot of similarities with most of them and the rock-hewn churches of Tigray.