Blue Nile Falls  ( Smoke of Fire )

Locally known as Tis Isat — ‘Smoke of Fire’ - the Blue Nile Falls is the most dramatic spectacle on either the White or the Blue Nile rivers. Four hundred meters (1,312 feet) wide when in flood, and dropping over a sheer chasm more than forty-five meters (150 feet) deep, the falls throw up a continuous spray of water, which drenches onlookers up to kilometers away.

This misty deluge produces rainbows, shim­mering across the gorge, and a small per­ennial rainforest of lush green vegetation, to the delight of the many monkeys and multicolored birds that inhabit the area.

The site overlooking the waterfall has had many notable visitors over the years, including the late eighteenth-century traveler James Bruce, and, in more recent times, Queen Elizabeth II of Britain

Lake Tana: Source of the Blue Nile
Rivaling the attraction of the Blue Nile Falls are the thirty- seven islands scattered about on the 3,000-square-kilometre (1,860-square-mile) surface of Ethiopia’s largest body of water, Lake Tana. Twenty of these islands shelter churches and monas­teries of significant historical and cultural interest. They are decorated with beautiful paintings and are the repository of innu­merable treasures.

Interesting and historic churches and monasteries on or around the lake can be found on the islands of Birgida Maryam, Dega Estefanos, Dek, Narga, Tana Cherkos, Mitsele Fasiidas, Kebran and Debre Maryam, as well as the peninsulas of Gorgora, Mandaba, and Zeghe, which has long been renowned for its coffee.

These places all have excellent churches. Though founded much earlier, most of the buildings date from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century. Many have beautiful mural paintings and church crosses, and house crowns and clothes of former kings

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