Tour Guides - Bona Fide Ethiopia Tours

Tour Guides

Private Guided Tour In Ethiopia
We have ample experience in organizing private guides for any of your chosen tour areas. Our private guides have many years of experience, an extensive knowledge and deep passion for the areas in which they work.

Our guide will meet the guests at their arrival at Bole International airport In Addis Ababa and will be on hand to guide them personally throughout their visit of Ethiopia. They will be involved with every aspect of the journey; indeed the trip’s success and the guests’ safety will be their utmost priority at all times.

Our private guided tour is arranged for solo traveler, families, friends, and students, small and big groups. And also for variety of tour types; be it cultural, historical, natural, archeological, birding, trekking, hiking, photographing, filming and researching.
On request we can also organize independent specialist and private guides for special interest groups. Please use our contact from to submit any query or information request you may have.

You can also choose a tour from our list that will be lead by a private Guide Itinerary

Find Ethiopian Local Guides at Major Destinations
Here bona-fide Ethiopia tours specialty service directly connects you to enthusiast local guides who are keen to share their knowledge and expertise. The local guides are not permanent employee of our company they live in the villages around the sites. They are the part of the community, the money you pay directly go to them. Our role is contracting the locals on your behalf and helping the locals increase their income responsibly.

The local guides take you deep into the life style of the local people, arrange a house visit, share a meal with the local family, invite you for a local ceremony if there is one, and tailor making to include anything strange the guest may have interests to see and so on.

Find local guides by place Addis Ababa, Bahirdar, Gonder, Semien Mountain, Axum, Lalibela and Harar.

We select our Local Guides on the basis of:
Registered by regional tourism bureau, certified and those with best command of English;
Have the required knowledge and experience of the fauna and flora, the sites and the local community;
Honest, reliable, trust-worthy and responsible of their impact on the sites and on the community at large;
With good reputation and excellent feedbacks from previous guests; and
Strongly believe tipping them is not a must task.

Why you need to hire Local Guides?
Your tour with the local guides is the most authentic, enriching, interactive and personal;
They add a local flavor to your trip;
They are better than anybody to advice you for any of your need in their village;
In this service it is only you and your group, no worry of differing interests from strangers;
With them you become a traveler rather than a tourist;
To minimize the cost of travel. It’s because you avoid the flights and accommodations cost of escort guide and bigger commission that happens when you buy sum of products together; and
The price difference between using this service and making whole arrangements of your own is very small but the reward of using this service greater by-far.

Type of Services provided by Local Guides:
Airport/Hotel transfers;
Arranging vehicles, bicycles, motorbikes and boats for sightseeing;
Guided tour;
Providing camping stuff; and
Guaranteed hotel booking.

Pricing and Payment for Local Guides:
Every local guide presents his price for you based on the service you wanted to buy;
Payment is handled with us and we keep the money until you finish the tour and until we hear yours feed back; and
For more information how to process payment, please see in terms and conditions!

Contact Info

Managing Director: Temesgen Agumas
Mobile: +251 918 026386 / 923 439870
P.O.Box: 1260
Address: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Email: info@bona-fideethiopiatours.com , temesgean@yahoo.com