Explores Debre Libanos Monastery Day Trip

Depart Addis Ababa and head to Debre Libanos on a day trip. Visit the church and its museum, and see the cave of Tekla Haimanot, the monastery founder.

Depart Addis Ababa at seven thirty AM. At slightly over one hundred kilometers from Addis Ababa, Debre Libanos is one of the best day trips from the Ethiopian capital. The church is monumental and pretty awful on the outside, but the stained glass windows are attractive.

Debre Libanos has one of the most interesting church museums in Ethiopia. Besides the usual ecclesiastical items, there are Italian guns, giant cooking pots, crowns of past emperors and their wives, musical instruments, and old wooden shackles.