After arrival, your tour guide will welcome you at the airport. First we will have Ethiopian coffee and breakfast before heading towards Debre Libanos. Flocks of Hooded Vultures and Black Kites will be wheeling overhead and we should see Dusky Turtledoves the endemic White-Collared Pigeon, Tacazze Sunbirds, Baglafecht Weavers, and Streaky Seedeaters. After breakfast this morning, we will cross the Sululta Plains. These high-altitude plateau grasslands provide superb birding, despite intensive cultivation. Resident birds we may find here include the Secretary Bird, White-Backed Vulture, African Hobby, Erckel's Francolin, Red-Chested Swallow, Cape Crow, Pectoral-Patch Cisticola, and African Quail Finch. Suddenly, the seemingly endless plain dramatically drops off into the Blue Nile drainage system. Perched on the edge of the gorge is the Debre Libanos Monastery, one of Ethiopia's most sacred Christian sites. We will concentrate our search here for Rappel’s Vulture, Verreaux's Eagle, the African Hawk-Eagle, Augur Buzzard (dark-morph birds are commonly seen here), Lanner Falcon, Nyanza Swift, Hemprich's Hornbill, the three endemic birds — Rüppell's Chat, the White-winged Cliff-chat, and the White-Billed Starling — Mocking Cliff-Chat, the Yellow-Rumped Serin, and the Cinnamon-Breasted Bunting. You may also see the Lion-Headed Baboon in this area.