The Astounding South East

Yamral Africa’s representative will welcome you at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. You then will drive to your hotel. If your flight arrives in Addis Ababa in the morning, time can be made for sightseeing of in and around Addis Ababa. You will stay the night in Addis Ababa.

Today you will be set for a full day drive to the Bale Mountains National Park. The park support a wealth of highland wildlife and contains spectacularly diverse landscape; from lush rain forest to red-rock plateau. You will stay the night at the Bale Mountains National Park.

After a breakfast at your hotel you will have a leisurely hike around the park. During your hike you can expect to come across the exceptionally handsome antelope, mountain nyala, which is abundant in the area, the Menelik’s bushbuck, warthog, bohor reedbuck, and possibly black-and-white colobus monkeys. The birdlife around the park includes both common endemic and near-endemic. You will stay the night at the Bale Mountains National park.

This day you will drive to the Sanetti Plateau, a montane habitat above 3,500m which is cited as the world’s largest expanse of Afroalpine moorland. The Sanetti is renowned for supporting the world’s most substantial population of Ethiopian Wolf. Birdlife includes several endemic moorland-dwelling species such as Africa’s only true goose and the Blue-winged goose. You will then continue to the Harenna Forest a dramatic escarpment separates the various sectors of Bale Mountains National Park. Harenna is the second largest forest in Ethiopia and boasts very high levels of biodiversity and endemism. You will stay the night at the Bale Mountains National park.

You will have an excursion to a tiny Muslim village in Bale. This is a site of an amazing complex of natural caves, cut by the Web River as it found its way from the nearby mountains. The caves are named after Sheikh Sof Omar, a Muslim leader who used them as a refug.  Armed with torches and official map, visitors to Sof Omar make their way underground, far into the bowels of the earth, beside a subterranean stream.

After an early breakfast, you will drive back to Addis Ababa.