JIMMA AND SURROUNDING

Jimma is one of the famous coffee growing areas of western Oromia; located at 335 km south west of Addis Ababa. Owing its origin and establishment to the early Oromo monarchy (one of the five Gibe kingdoms) whose capital was at the site called Jiren (9km north of Jimma town). Places of interest such as Abba Jefar Palace (1853-1925), Historical Museum, Sor waterfalls…

From Jimma 25 km and 27 km from Metu, visitors can walk through the forest and coffee plantations, on a narrow path, for about an hour, to one of Ethiopia’s most magnificent water fall of Sor river which pours over the lip of a broad chasm over 20 meters deep, where a natural amphitheatre, heavily overgrown with the ferns and grasses, form a delightful scenery.