3 Days Simien Mountain Tours

3 Days Simien Mountain Tours

by | May 25, 2020 | Historic North, Simien Mountains category

3 Days Simien Mountain Tours

Overview

This Simien Mountains 3 Days trek explores one of Africa’s largest mountain ranges, studded with at least a dozen peaks over the 4,000m mark. These include Ras Dejen the highest point in Ethiopia, and the 4th highest peak in Africa

Tour Plan

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Day 1: Gondar to Sankobar

Drive from Gondar to Debark. Here we obtain a permit from the Park headquarters and collect our obligatory scout before continuing to Sankabar (3250m ASL) for the first overnight camp. An early start is needed as the drive from Gondar takes a 2-3 hours. The trek begins at Buytras (Simien Lodge), taking about 3 – 4 hours to walk to the Sankabar campsite is usually possible. During the walk there’s a good chance of seeing your first Gelada baboons.

Day 2: Sankabar to Geech

In the morning of day 2, we will walk to Geech via the spectacular Jinbar waterfall. The trek will take approximately 5 – 7 hours. After descending down to the Jinbar Wenz (which feeds the waterfall) a short ascent remains to Geech village. A short distance beyond Geech village is the camp site. The camp site has great views of the mountains and is characterized by giant lobelia plants. The nearby Kedadit summit provides one of the best places to see the sun set. The camp site is situated at 3600m ASL.

Day 3: Geech to Ambaras to Gondar

We trek from Geech to the Imet Gogo promontory, for one of the most spectacular views in the whole mountain range. This is a great day for seeing the magnificent Lammergeier vultures. From Imet Gogo we trek back to the road near a village called Ambaras and meet the car for the drive back to Gondar. The trek will last approximately 4-5hrs.

Tour Includes
  • Domestic flights
  • All entrance fee and licenses required to the Simien Mountains National Park
  • All cooking equipment and meals during the trekking
  • Camping equipment
  • 4×4 Toyota Landcruiser for airport pick-up and transfer to the park
  • Driver’s allowance and fuel expenses
  • English speaking /guide
  • Government taxes
  • Service charge
Tour Excludes
  • International flight
  • Travel insurance
  • Visa fee
  • Video camera and/or photo fees
  • Tips for drivers, guides (at your discretion)
  • Any other personal expenses

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    3 Days Harar and Diredewa Tours

    3 Days Harar and Diredewa Tours

    by | May 25, 2020 | Eastern Ethiopia

    3 Days Harar and Diredewa Tours

    Tour Plan

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    Day 1: Addis Ababa – Harar

    Fly from Addis Ababa to Dire Dawa on Ethiopian Airlines. Continue by vehicle from Dire Dawa to Harar. Stroll through the 16th century walled city of Harar, the fourth most important city in the Islamic World. See the home of Arthur Rimbuad, renowned French poet who worked and lived in Harar as a “gun-runner” during the 19th century. Overnight Hotel

    Day 2: Harar

    Visit the colorful Islamic market. Tour the National and Harari museums and the house of Ras Mekonnen (father of Haile Selassie.) In the evening see the “Hyena Man” feeding the hyenas that gather nightly outside the town.

    Day 3: Harar – Addis Ababa

    Drive from Harar to Dire Dawa with optional stop at Ethiopia’s largest “chat” market in Aweday. From Dire Dawa, fly to Addis Ababa. Transfer to airport for late night departure if needed.

    Tour Includes
    • Domestic flights
    • All entrance fee and licenses required to the Simien Mountains National Park
    • All cooking equipment and meals during the trekking
    • Camping equipment
    • 4×4 Toyota Landcruiser for airport pick-up and transfer to the park
    • Driver’s allowance and fuel expenses
    • English speaking /guide
    • Government taxes
    • Service charge
    Tour Excludes
    • International flight
    • Travel insurance
    • Visa fee
    • Video camera and/or photo fees
    • Tips for drivers, guides (at your discretion)
    • Any other personal expenses

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      3 Days Bahi Dar Lake Tana and Blue Nile falls

      3 Days Bahi Dar Lake Tana and Blue Nile falls

      by | May 25, 2020 | Historic North

      3 Days Bahi Dar Lake Tana and Blue Nile falls

      Tour Plan

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      Day 1: Bahir Dar – lake Tana

      Stop At: Lake Tana, Ground floor from Blue Nile Hotel, Bahir Dar 1000 Ethiopia after breakfast we will pick you up from the hotel and then get a brief about your full day boat trip. Our representative/ guide will take you to the harbor and heading to the outlet of the Blue Nile River. Along the way you will enjoy birds and fishermen with Tankwa (a vessel boat that made of Cyprus papyrus plant). Later continue to Narga Silassie church and coming back you will visit Betre Mariam and Ura Kidane Mihiret churches.
      What to see and experience:
      • 3:30 hours boat reed (one way)
      • 30-40 minutes’ walk though coffee plantation and evergreen church forests
      • Visit 3 beautiful monasteries
      • Watch birds, hippos and fishermen. Finally return to Bahir Dar. Overnight Hotel

      Day 2: Bahir Dar – Awra Amba community

      Stop At: Bahir Dar Market, Papyrus Hotel The Opposite Of Millinium Cafe, Bahir Dar 1000 Ethiopia At 8:00am drive to Awra Amba community through Hamusit city and afterwards make city tour including Emperor Haile Silassie palace (not open for everyone but has great views to watch Lake Tana, Bahir Dar city, Blue Nile River, island monasteries and surroundings). Overnight Hotel
      What to see and experience:
      • Unique community belief and practices
      • Watch Bahir Dar’s view point
      • Visit Emperor Haile Silassie’s palace (outside)
      • Explore cattle and open-air markets

      Day 3: Bahir Dar – Blue Nile fall

      Stop At: Blue Nile Falls, Amhara , Region Ethiopia After breakfast excursion to Blue Nile fall. Later you would see Grace Center. Grace is one of the famous foundations in Bahir Dar. It helps women and families. They have daycare so that impoverished mothers can work and not have to abandon their children (orphan prevention).
      They work to keep families together by searching for and assisting single parents while encouraging them to become self sufficient. And they also have children’s home foster homes for children who are not able to be reunified with birth family. For these children they work to have them adopted locally by Ethiopians and also help children growing up in prison.
      What to see and experience:
      • Drive on unpaved road
      • Visit water fall
      • Visit Grace Center School, Children, their day care program, small business jewelry and bag making, Small business sewing, after school care program, Children’s temporary care home.

      Tour Includes
      • Domestic flights
      • All entrance fee and licenses required to the Simien Mountains National Park
      • All cooking equipment and meals during the trekking
      • Camping equipment
      • 4×4 Toyota Landcruiser for airport pick-up and transfer to the park
      • Driver’s allowance and fuel expenses
      • English speaking /guide
      • Government taxes
      • Service charge
      Tour Excludes
      • International flight
      • Travel insurance
      • Visa fee
      • Video camera and/or photo fees
      • Tips for drivers, guides (at your discretion)
      • Any other personal expenses

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        4 Days Harar and Dire Dawa

        4 Days Harar and Dire Dawa

        by | May 24, 2020 | Eastern Ethiopia

        4 Days Harar and Dire Dawa

        Tour Plan

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        Day 1: Arrival at Addis Ababa Bole International Air port

        Meet and greet our representative at exit of luggage claim and transfer you to the hotel.

        Day 2: Flight Dire Dawa and Drive to Harar

        After a relaxed breakfast, a short flight will take you to Dire Dawa. Then you will have a lunch at Dire Dawa. Drive to Harar (50km from Dire Dawa). You will arrive in Harar late in the afternoon where you will check into a hotel. Early in the evening, you will visit man feeding wild hyenas. Then you will have dinner & spend the night there.

        Day 3: Visit the Walled town of Harar

        You will have an early breakfast and visit the walled city of Jegol, the house of Arthur Rimbaud (a French poetry who lived 1880’s in Harar), Emperor Haile Selassie home (where he was born & raised) and Harari Cultural Museum. In the evening, you will have dinner and stay the night at the hotel.

        Day 4: Drive to Dire Dawa and flight to Addis Ababa

        You will have breakfast & drive to Dire Dawa (50 Km from Harar). And check in for, a short flight back to Addis Ababa. You will arrive in Addis Ababa late afternoon where you will do some shopping for souvenirs. Finally you will be taken to a farewell dinner depending on your scheduled flight; you will be transferred out to Bole International Airport for return flight back home.

        Tour Includes
        • Domestic flights
        • All entrance fee and licenses required to the Simien Mountains National Park
        • All cooking equipment and meals during the trekking
        • Camping equipment
        • 4×4 Toyota Landcruiser for airport pick-up and transfer to the park
        • Driver’s allowance and fuel expenses
        • English speaking /guide
        • Government taxes
        • Service charge
        Tour Excludes
        • International flight
        • Travel insurance
        • Visa fee
        • Video camera and/or photo fees
        • Tips for drivers, guides (at your discretion)
        • Any other personal expenses

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          4 Days Simien Mountains Tours and Trekking

          4 Days Simien Mountains Tours and Trekking

          by | May 24, 2020 | Historic North, Simien Mountains category

          4 Days Simien Mountains Tours and Trekking

          Overview

          This Simien Mountains 4 Days trek explores one of Africa’s largest mountain ranges, studded with at least a dozen peaks over the 4,000m mark. These include Ras Dejen the highest point in Ethiopia, and the 4th highest peak in Africa

          Tour Plan

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          Day 1: Gondar- Sankaber (3250 m), 3-4 hours

          We will pick you up at Gondar Airport or your hotel, drive along a good paved road from Gondar to the park headquarters in Debark. The 100 km journey will take around two hours. Drive for another hour before we start our first day introductory walk. This first hike is an easy one along the northern edge of the escarpment with a nice view points over the foothills and plains of northern Ethiopia. You will encounter gelada baboon along this hike and over nigh at Sankaber.

          Day 2: Sankaber – Gich (3600 m), 5-6 hrs

          We follow the northern escarpment eastward, before we descend a little into the Kaba Valley. After that we climb up before we reach Gich Abyss and continue over a narrow ridge to a cliff where we have a spectacular view of the abyss towards the Simien foothills. We also find a large waterfall here, where the Jinbar River plunges 500 m into the abyss. We proceed for about two hours and have lunch at the Jinbar River. After lunch we walk through fields of barley before we arrive at the idyllic village of Gich. Here we can enjoy a traditional coffee ceremony in one of the huts and learn more about local farm life. From Gich village it is a short walk to Gich camp which is a good area to look for lammergeyer and thick billed raven. After a relaxing afternoon, we will take a short hike up to Kedadit to enjoy sunset plus the gorgeous shaded landscapes down to the cliff side towards to the eastern direction and return to the camp for dinner.

          Day 3: Gich – Chennek (3600 m), 7-8 hrs

          From Gich camp we stroll through endless fields of Giant Lobelia before we reach the towering cliffs of Imet-Gogo (3926 m). Here we will spend some time to absorb the superb views over the mountain valleys below and strange shaped domes in the distance, which we will see from up close at the end of the trip. After that we descend into the Jinbahir River Valley. In this way we get a very different perspective of Imet-Gogo and the volcanic landscape, where it looks like big chunks of mountains have been blown away. The trail follows the edge of the escarpment, which is completely vertical here for several hundred meters. We climb to a summit of 4070 m where we will have lunch. After lunch we descend to Chennek for about two hours along a steep trail. From Chennek camp there are spectacular views in all directions. Sit down on a bench at the escarpment and try to spot Walia Ibex in late afternoon or early morning. Sometimes Walia Ibex visit the edges of the camp site.

          Day 4: Chenek – Buwahit, 5-6 hrs

          Climb the second highest peak in the Simien mountains Buwahit (4430m) rewarding with one of the endemic wild animals in Ethiopia particularly in the Simien mountains called Walia Ibex (a goat family), in addition to the scenic views of surroundings including the chance to see the highest mountain peak in Ethiopia Ras-Dejen (4543m) and back down to chenek camp where the car waiting us to pick and drive back to Gondar for about 4 hrs.

          Tour Includes
          • Domestic flights
          • All entrance fee and licenses required to the Simien Mountains National Park
          • All cooking equipment and meals during the trekking
          • Camping equipment
          • 4×4 Toyota Landcruiser for airport pick-up and transfer to the park
          • Driver’s allowance and fuel expenses
          • English speaking /guide
          • Government taxes
          • Service charge
          Tour Excludes
          • International flight
          • Travel insurance
          • Visa fee
          • Video camera and/or photo fees
          • Tips for drivers, guides (at your discretion)
          • Any other personal expenses

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