Embark on a Bale Mountain and Sanetti Plateau tour of the Ethiopian Highlands which have the highest rate of animal endemicity in the world. The tour also includes the resort town of Wondogenet and Hawassa- a city on the shores of Lake Awasa in the Great Rift Valley.
Morning drive to south east of Addis through the Crater Lake town of Debrezeit. Continue driving and you will have a boat trip on Lake Ziway to see some aquatic birds and hippos. Have lunch at one of the decent restaurant in Ziway and proceed via Langano-a striking lake region to get to Wondogenet. This is a beautiful resort situated amid wooden hills. It is a source for the hot spring in which people enjoy taking an open air bath. Wondogenet is also known for its rich bird life, Colobus and Vervet monkeys, which can easily be seen flittering on the tree branches. Dinner and overnight stay at Wabishebele resort hotel and get ready for the Bale Mountain trip the following day. Read more
Drive to the country of Bale Mountain through the fertile land of Arsi enjoying the view of the cultivated land and houses of Oromo people. Arrive at the headquarters of the national park which is the house of the unique wild life and several bird species and embark on a Bale Mountain trip. See the endemic mountain Nyala, Menelik’s Bush buck and others like the Grey Duiker, Bohor, Reedbuck, Wartogs and others. Then continue your Bale Mountain trip driving to Goba. Dinner and overnight stay at Wabishebele resort hotel or similar and get ready for the Sanetti plateau tour next day. Read more
After the impressive Bale Mountain trip, enjoy the breakfast and then start driving o embark on a Sanetti plateau tour. This plateau is the best place in Ethiopia to see the elegant endemic animal-Ethiopian Wolf. Also crawling are rodents, the largest being the giant mole- rat, found only in the Bale Mountains. Explore the area on foot, marveling at the lichen-clad rocks. Look to the sky for soaring birds of prey: golden, tawny and Verreaux’s eagles as well as the bearded vulture (lammergeyer), lanner falcon, and augur buzzard. Contonue your Sanetti plateau tour and drive up and pass Tulu Dimtu - the second highest mountain in Ethiopia at 4,377m. Then start descending to enter the Harenna escarpment, plunging more than 2,000m towards a vast tropical forest in just 8km. Stop at the small village of Rira and have lunch form your lunch box together you may enjoy the local dish of ambesha and gomen (flatbread and steamed kale). Then hike in the Harena forest through dense stands of mountain bamboo. With some luck, you may encounter the elusive bamboo specialist- the Bale Mountains vervet endemic to Ethiopia. Also, on this Sanetti plateau tour see the spectacular water fall in the forest and you may see Bush Buck. Drive back to Goba on the way exploring more Ethiopian wolf and highland birds. Dinner and overnight stay at your hotel, finishing here today's Sanetti plateau tour. Read more
After breakfast, drive to the southeast Goba to embark on a Sof Omer cave tour. This is one of the longest underground cave in Africa with a total length of over 1.5kms. The meandering Web River lies in a deep-rooted George, 150m below a level basalt plateau. Late in the afternoon, after completing your Sof Omer cave tour drive back to Goba. Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel. Read more
Following an impressive Sof Omer cave tour, today you will have a relaxed drive to the city of Hawassa. Lunch en route and you will enjoy the sunset and the varied aquatic birds such as the Cormorants, Darters, African Fish Eagle, Hamerkop and mammals such as the Colobus and Vervet Monkeys by the shore of Lake Hawassa. Dinner and overnight stay at Haile Resort or similar. Read more
Early morning visit the fish market where you see the fishermen selling their fish to the locals and water birds such as the Marabous, Great White Pelicans, Hamerkps, Gulls and lots of others eating the leftovers of the fish. Then start driving to Addis. END OF SERVICE.
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