Highlights
Operating days: every day
Departure time: 0830 hours
Duration: 5 days
Single supplement: $210
Departure point: Asmara accommodation pick-up
Arrival point: Asmara accommodation drop- off
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Upon arrival in Eritrea, you will meet and greet our` representative who will welcome you to Asmara and transfer from the airport to Cytstal hotel for overnight.
After breakfast, you’ll visit modernist Asmara, inscribed in the UNESCO Heritage List and the city called “Piccola Roma” (Little Rome) and architectural wonders portrayed in many of its buildings such as the Roman Catholic cathedral, St Mary Orthodox church, Al Khulafa al Rashedin, Market [vegetable, spices, souvenir, Medeber (recycling depot)], National Museum, Fiat Tagliero building, Tank graveyard. In the afternoon, en route to Massawa highway through the town of Ghindae., with enthralling dramatic snaking bends, vistas, cool air, and sometimes a veil of mist over the horizon. Upon arrival, you’ll check-in at Dahlak Grand Hotel for dinner and overnight.
Meal(s): Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, we’ll board a motorboat to the discovery of “the pearls of Red Sea”: Dahlak Islands. Full of time for leisure, swimming, snorkeling, and fishing. Scattered over a vast area of the Red Sea like a string of pearl upon the azure, translucent waters of the Red Sea, more than 350 Eritrean islands, among which more than 200 islands belong to the Dahlak Archipelago, remain one of the last great unspoiled destinations in the world. Before the sunset, we will return from the islands to Massawa
Dahlak Grand Hotel for dinner and overnight.
Meal(s): Breakfast, Dinner
Today you will visit the most interesting and unique places in Massawa. Massawa is known for its’ combination of Turkish and Italian Architecture styles, an apparent indication of its Ottoman and Italian colonial history. There is, among others, an old Turkish Palace and a Modern Port built by the Titians at the turn of the 20th Century. Proceed to Keren arriving before nightfall. Dinner and overnight will be at Sarina Hotel.
Meal(s): Breakfast, Dinner
After breakfast, we’ll embark on a sightseeing tour of the city of Keren. Worth-seeing places are the Italian and British war cemeteries, the mosque and the little Greek church near the market, the governor country-seat, the Romanesque Saint Michael church, and the old Fortress (1,460 Mt. high). Last but not least, a visit to “Mariam Dearit” (Our Lady of Baobab), a chapel built inside the tree itself. Stop at the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Baobab, linked to a miraculous story that saved the lives of some Italian soldiers, they made it as their thanks to God because they took shelter there during the British bombings in 1941. Later in the afternoon, we will drive to Asmara where you will drop off at the airport or accommodation. End of services
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Meal(s): Breakfast,
