Day 1: Addis – Awash National Park

Drive through Ethiopian Great Rift Valley Region to Awash through Amhara, Oromo and Afar tribal villages. Up on arrival you will enjoy a game drive in park and you will have a game drive to visit the Awash River Falls, mammals and birds. It has over 350 species of birds that have been recorded in this savannah grassland and is one of the most geologically active regions of the world. This park is the oldest and most developed wildlife reserve in Ethiopia; find common animals like Beisa Orex, Soemmerring’s Gazelle, Salt’s dik-dik and more.  It is even easy to access. Awash National Park occupies about 830 square kilometres (320 miles) of dry savannah in the middle of the Rift Valley. Drive back to Addis through Ethiopian Great Rift Valley Region and visit Beseka Crater Lake.

Overnight: Awash Falls Lodge or Genet Hotel

Day 2: Awash – Harar

After breakfast a scenic drive to the walled city of Harar. It is considered the 4^th Islamic holiest city in the world with more than 1000 mosques. Evening you will visit the Hyena Man.

Overnight: Hotel

Day 3: Sightseeing tour of Harar

Morning you will visit cultural museums of Arthur Rimbaud’s house, Grand Mosques, Emperor Haile Sellasie childhood residence. After lunch you will visit the colourful markets, the 16^th C encircling Wall and its gates.

Overnight: Hotel

Day 4: Drive Harar – Dire Dawa

In the morning drive to the old town Dire Dawa is known as “Queen of the Dezert”. Here you will visit the old railway station in the colourful city. Enjoy the rest of the day by exploring the old town.

Day 5: Fly Dire Dawa – Addis – Departure

After breakfast, fly back to Addis, then as per your interest you will have sightseeing tour of Addis which includes National Muesum, Trinity Cathedral, Ethnographical museum, and Merkato-the largest open air market in Africa. Then evening you will be invited by Lonely Ethiopia Tours at one of the best cultural restaurant with folkloric dance of different tribes of Ethiopia with local cousin and coffee ceremony. Late you will drive to the airport for your flight back to home

Tour Code: 3001

Category: Eastern Historic Sites

Transport: Air / surface

Duration: 5 days/4nights

The tour to Harar and Eastern Ethiopia will take you through the savannah to reach Awash National Park, where you can easily spot wildlife and nature, and continue to Harar, a major commercial centre that has served as a link to the rest of the country and the Horn of Africa for centuries. The old walled city, known as Harar Jugol, is included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO due to its recognition as a cultural heritage. In this enclosure, you can also find Arthur Rimbaud’s house during his stay in the 19th century. Sneaking around Harar’s streets will take you to medieval times and being surrounded by its colourful native clothes will definitely make you feel cheerful. End up your tour with a visit to the hyena-man, a peculiar spectacle that takes place every night by the city wall. Finally, the journey ends up

in visit the old town Dire Dawa, important link to Djibouti in other times and current industrial centre with several markets. The old railway station is the meeting point of this colourful city, surrounded by merchants, camels, donkeys and spiritual people.

• Many information you will be Getting around Ethiopia Safely
• By Air/ Surface Transport
• Travel documents must be available (Passport and Visa requirements)
• Accommodation with Amazing Hotels
• Food with local and international variety 
• 5 Days and 4 nights of Fun and lovely Time

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