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Bahir Dar lies on the southern shore of Lake Tana, which is not the source of the Blue Nile only because of an entanglement.
AFRICA SAFARI
Bahir Dar
Bahir Dar lies on the southern shore of Lake Tana, which is only not the source of the Blue Nile due to an entanglement. The city is Ethiopia's third largest development from a Jesuit settlement founded in the sixteenth or seventeenth century and is home to one of Emperor Haile Selassie's palaces. The islands of the lake are home to some of the oldest churches and monasteries in the world. The main attraction, the Blue Nile Falls, known locally as Tis Isat, or smoke of fire, offer a dramatic spectacle on the Blue Nile rivers. They grow four hundred meters wide during high tide as they plunge over a sheer chasm of more than forty-five meters and then finally churn up the water below into a persistent spray, splashing onlookers even up to a kilometer away. This misty deluge creates rainbows and a small, perennial rainforest with lush green vegetation, which in turn attracts many monkeys and colorful birds to the area.
