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Blue Nile Falls

"Tis Issat" - the water that smokes - where the Blue Nile throws itself over a 400-metre-wide basalt lip, once one of Africa's great sights and still stirring after the rains.

DROP
45 m
GETTING THERE
1 hr
ENTRY
Small fee
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Worth it & getting there FIELD RATING
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Easy · Day trip
1h + 20-min walk · day-trip · small fee
Easy. From Bahir Dar (BJR) it's a ~1-hour drive to Tis Issat village, then a 20-30 minute walk to the falls. Small entrance fee. An easy half-day trip. June-October (rainy season) for the fullest flow - a hydro plant upstream reduces it at other times. Agree guide prices up front; sturdy shoes for the path.
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ACCESS
Drive + 20-30 min walk
TIME NEEDED
Half day
CROWDS
Quiet
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Spray at high water
The water that smokes
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