Coffee Tour
Program: Coffee Tour
Code: MELODY_T 030
Transport: Surface
Duration: 7 days and 6 nights
Day 1: Flight to Addis Ababa – Welcome at the airport and transfer to hotel. (If night arrival at Addis)
Day 2: Excursion Addis Ababa – Jimma, hotel. (336km, asphalted, 5 h drive)
Day 3: Jimma – Limu (birth place of coffee) – Jimma, hotel. (40km, highway, 1 h drive)
Day 4: Jimma – Bonga, camping. (103km, highway, 4 h drive)
Day 5: Bonga – Mizan – Bebeka, Camping/Gust house. (150km, gravel road, 4 h drive)
Day 6: Bebeka – Teppi, camping/Gust house. (50km, gravel road, 2 h drive)
Day 7: Teppi – Gore – Metu, camping/Gust house. (138km, gravel road, 4 h drive)
Day 8: Metu – Bedele – Agaro – Jimma, hotel (265km, 8 h drive)
Day 9: Jimma - Weliso – Addis Ababa, hotel. (336km, newly asphalted, 5 h drive)
Day 10: Shopping day in Merkato (the largest open-air market in Africa) farewell dinner in a traditional restaurant with traditional dance, transfer to air port for an international flight back home.
In the year 2015 winners, Melody Tour and Car Rent plc (Melaku Beyene) from Ethiopia, received the World Quality Commitment Award in the Gold Category at the BID Quality Convention in Paris. The organization has made huge strides this year as a leader not only within its sector, but also in Ethiopia. The Award came as an ideal way to celebrate this past year's successes while looking forward to putting quality first in the year to come.