On arrival at the airport, your guide and driver will meet you and take you on a city tour of Axum that includes the Archaeological museum of Axum and the Cathedral of St. Mary of Zion. The original church was built by Emperor Fasiladas, founder of Gonder, in 1665. It’s thought that this church is built on the original foundations of a temple build by King Ezana or King Kaleb in the 4th or 6...
Your guide and driver will meet you after breakfast at Bale Mountain Lodge. Travel in your private, air-conditioned 4-wheel drive vehicle from Harenna Forest up the escarpment to the Sanetti Plateau, passing through the altitudinally varying vegetation bands as you ascend. Once up on the plateau, you will drive slowly along the road on mostly flat terrain, examining the fragile Afro-alpine moorlan...
When you arrive at the Bale Mountains National Park Headquarters near Dinsho, stop to take a walk in the Juniper and Hagenia woods in this area. Terrain is easy, with grass and herbage between the stands of trees and shrubs. People come here to seek two endemic antelopes, the large Mountain nyala - which is very approachable and present in fair numbers - and the smaller, darker Menelik's bushbuck,...
While based at Bale Mountain Lodge, you should definitely spend at least one day exploring parts of this expansive and very beautiful evergreen forest. There is a well mapped system of trails, some starting from the lodge. Those keen on scenery can visit sites like the Rira Falls, while birders may want to focus on exploring the forest itself. Around the lodge, birding is rewarding, with regularly...
If you are travelling to the Omo region from June to September, you may be very lucky to be able to attend one of these remarkable events, which are held by a family for a Hamar youth who has decided that he wants to make the transition from boyhood to manhood; gather a herd of cattle and get married. After breakfast at Buska Lodge near Turmi, your guide, your local Hamar guide and driver will mee...
You will be collected from Eco Omo Lodge in Jinka after breakfast, by your guide and driver. With them, you will meet a local guide who will take you to one of the Mursi villages which welcome visitors. He will explain the culture and lifestyle of this tribe to you and brief you on the specific photographic ettiquette including the rates. After you have visited the village and learned about the Mu...
Your guide and driver will collect you from your hotel or guesthouse after dark. Drive with them to a bare plot on the city outskirts, where your vehicle will be parked. Only the headlights will be left on, shining over the 'hyena-man', who sits in the middle of the plot, with a basket of meat scraps. As he calls out plaintively, the Hyenas - up to 30 or even as many as 50, arrive like ghostly spe...
The Konso region can be visited as a half-day excursion or longer, using either Kanta Lodge near Karat-Konso as a base, or Paradise Lodge at Arba Minch. Either way your guide and driver will collect you from your lodge after breakfast. Set off in your 4-wheel drive vehicle to this very interesting region, where scenery is characterised by the fairly steep. intricately terraced slopes. You may also...
You will be collected from your hotel by your guide and driver. (Time to be advised locally). Your city highlights tour will include 3 – 4 stops and can be adapted with your guide to suit your interests. Founded in 1886 by Emperor Menelik II, Addis Ababa the seat of the African Union (AU). It is the world’s third highest-lying capital and one of the largest cities in Africa, with a pop...
Your guide and driver will collect you from the lodge after an early breakfast, for a wildlife and birding drive in the national park. The route followed for most of the drives takes about 4 hours to complete and covers about 35km. From the main entrance gate, the road goes southwards to the Falls. From there, you head east to the gorge and northwards to the gate through the dry plains of Ilala Sa...
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