Enjoy the Adventure
Combine a tour of Addis Ababa with visits to Harare, Dire Dawa, and Awash National Park on this 5-day tour. After spending your first day in Addis, you’ll head out to Harar to visit the walled city and watch the city's famous hyena feeding demonstration. You'll then continue to Dire Dawa to see cave paintings and onwards to Awash National Park for a game drive before returning to Addis.
Included / Excluded
To help you plan your trip, we have put together a list of what's included and what's not included in your tour package. This will give you a clear understanding of what to expect and help you make any necessary arrangements before your journey begins.
- Train tickets and Bus transportation
- Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Accommodation at hotel
- Train tickets and Bus transportation
- Professional tour guide
- Transfers between destinations
- Entrance fees to museums
- Custom itinerary
Itinerary
The tour program can be modified, differently rearranged, combined with other itineraries and shorten or extended to suit your interest, time, and budget. Please contact us for further details.
Drive to Awash National Park. Many species of birds are found here: African Orange-bellied Parrots, Bustards, Weavers, Hoopoe, Yellow-throated Serine, Red-fronted Barbet, Pygmy Batis, Lesser-striped Swallow, and the House Martin. The park also boasts a variety of mammals: the Anubis Baboon, Colobus Monkey, Black-backed Jackal, Bat-eared Fox, Egyptian Mongoose, Warthog, Beisa Oryx, Soemmering’s Gazelle, Lesser Kudu, Salt’s Dikdik, etc.
Overnight Lodge (L, D)
Early morning game viewing. Afterwards, drive to Dire Dawa via the Harege Plateau a region of coffee and chat plantations. Arrive in the afternoon to tour the local market.
Overnight Hotel (B, L, D)
Drive to Harar (45 minutes.) 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. Visit the National and Harari museums; the house of Ras Mekonnen (father of Haile Selassie); and a traditional Harari home. In the evening see the “Hyena Man” feeding the hyenas that gather nightly outside the town.
Overnight Hotel (B, L, D)
Continue with tour of Harar. Take an excursion to visit homes in the cliff-side village of Koremi.
Overnight Hotel (B, L, D)
Morning visit to the colorful Islamic Market. Drive from Harar to Dire Dawa. Fly to Addis Ababa. Visit the National Museum, home of the 3 million year old skeleton “Lucy.” Optional souvenir shopping. Enjoy a farewell dinner at a traditional Ethiopian restaurant featuring dancers and musicians representing some of the country’s many ethnic groups. Transfer to airport for late night departure or additional hotel night booked upon request.
(B, L, D)
