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Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) is a local tour operator in Ethiopia which came to existence to deliver high quality & professional tour and travel services mainly in Ethiopia. Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) also handles tours and travel arrangements to Kenya, Djibouti and Somaliland.  Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) strives to generate the best tour experiences visitors deserve in Ethiopia. Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) specializes in organizing tours to the historical sites of northern and eastern Ethiopia, tours to the rock hewn churches of Tigray – northern Ethiopia, and to the colorful and interesting tribal people of southern Ethiopia.

All the professional and motivated staffs of Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) heartily believes and wholly involve to meet customers’ expectations of their tour in Ethiopia with perfect match Ethiopian experience.  The fleet of Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET’s) insured and best conditioned vehicles and the quality of accommodation we use also add value to our excellence and make clients’ tour and travel in Ethiopia more enjoyable, and worth having.

Our multilingual guides, for whom travelling in Ethiopia is a way of life – not a way of making a living, lead you to all the corners of Ethiopia. As to meet our utmost concern of providing satisfactory, ethical, and professional tour experience to visitors of Ethiopia, we employ tour guides who are knowledgeable, experienced and sympathetic to visitors’ interests.

In addition to being mainly a local tour operator in Ethiopia, organizing package tours,  Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) provides the following services: -

-          Hotel Room Booking

-          Air Seat Reservation

-          Car Rental

-          Camping Equipment & Cooking Utensils Rental

-          Organizing Conference Tours

You can easily predetermine how exciting your tour to Ethiopia would be by examining how your one-to-one pre-tour arrangements are handled and organized professionally. Connection is the key to opportunities – Just let us know how we can help you.

Since, tours to Ethiopia, though not in its strictest sense, has fascinated visitors to Ethiopia starting from hundreds and hundreds years ago, as quoted chronologically in short below, Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) is legally established to provide contemporary tourists to Ethiopia exceedingly satisfactory tour and travel service visitors deserve.

“Ethiopia Shall soon stretch forth her hands unto God.” 
                                                                       Psalm 68:31

Ethiopia is a country whose name is mentioned many times in the bible. Ethiopia is the first country in Africa to accept Christianity as a State religion.

“I hold Ethiopians in great esteem and I warn you, my followers, not to harm them.”
                                                                       Prophet Mohammed

Islamic presence in Ethiopia dates back to the time of Prophet Mohammed. In AD 615, several of Mohammed’s followers, his wife among them, fled to Axum, the earliest capital of Ethiopia, where they were offered protection by the king and allowed to settle at Negash. In the eastern part of Ethiopia, the walled and old towm of Harar is, regarded us the fourth holy city of Islam.

“It wearied me to write more of these works, because it seemed to me that they will accuse me of untruth . . .there is much more than I have already written, and I have left it that they may not tax me with it being falsehood.”
What the Portuguese priest Francisco Alvares wrote in his narrative A True Relation of the Lands of Prester John when he was taken to the rock hewn churches of Lalibela in 1521, he doubted that his compatriots would believe what he had seen. Lalibela is Ethiopia's top tourist site, which is regarded unofficially as the Eighth Wonder of the World. Ethiopia is also famous for more than 200 rock hewn churches found in Tigray, northern Ethiopia.

“The insistence that the Queen of Sheba had been an Ethiopian and the linked pretence that she had borne a son to King Solomon who, in due course, had abducted the Ark from Jerusalem, had more the ring of preposterous fictions than of sober truths. To be sure, I had uncovered a great deal of evidence in Ethiopia – persuasive evidence – which did lend considerable support to the notion that the relic might really lie in the sanctuary chapel in Axum.”
                                                                        Graham Hancock

“ Formerly known as Abyssinia, Ethiopia, according to tradition, was founded long before the birth of Christ, supposedly by the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba . . . . . . . . . .

“ Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined.”

Notes by the former President of South Africa – Nelson Mandela from his book ‘Long Walk to Freedom’

“Ethiopia bred in me the conviction that if there is any purpose to our time on this earth, it is to understand it, to seek out its diversity, to celebrate its heroes and its wanders – in short, to witness it.” 
                         PHILIP MARSDEN - In his book The Chains of Heaven
"YES! ETHIOPIA IS ......!"
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"We are here to help you get a marvelous experience and put your words above." 
                           Merit Ethiopian Experience TOURS

Merit Ethiopian Experience Tours (MEET) is legally established under the The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Trade and Industry with a business licence number 646/2001, and with Principal Registration Certificate number 020/1/48457/2001.