Located 35 kms southeast of Bahir Dar, the Blue Nile Fall is a must watch water fall. Local people prefer to call ‘Tis esat’ (water that smokes). It used to cover all the rock above 400 m wide during the rainy season and up to 45 m, it used to drop. Currently, the water fall less because of damming for hydroelectric power station.

However, it retains its spectacular fall with the addition of rainbow, riverine forest and surrounding landscape. Blue Nile Fall was visited by the Portuguese traveler Fransico Alvarez in 1520’s and Queen Elizabeth Il of England in 1965.