Trek to Meqet in the Basalt Mountains around Lalibela, stay in local communities. See their ancient world, their churches and their way of life. Walk through the age-old agrarian landscape of the Ethiopian Highlands following escarpments with birds of prey soaring in the thermals and Gelada baboon scrambling up and down the cliff face. Local shepherd boys keep an eye on their flocks, while their fathers plough the fields, and their sisters collect water in clay pots.