Transport: Surface
Tour Code: VET074
Durations: 15days & 14 nights
Day 01: Arrive Addis Ababa, transfer hotel for at night
Day 02: Drive to Awash National Park visits on the way kereyou people the Metahara Lake. Afternoon, game drive in the park, visit the Awash River falls, Awash River gorge and more. Dinner and at night camp, in the park
Day 03: Continue driving towards the Afar people and drive to the town of Semera. Get here all needed permits for visiting the Danakil depression (117m below sea level) at night camp.
Day 04: Drive to visit Lake Afdera, where Afar people extract salt at night camp.
Day 05: Drive at bottom of Ertale volcano, one of the few active volcanic sites in Africa, at night camp.
Day 06: Visit the volcano, views and more afternoon back to vehicle at night camp.
Day 07: Drive back to Semera at night camp
Day 08: Drive to Djibouti and proceed to lake Easal for remarkable views at night camp.
Day 09: Continue to Tadjoura, old capital at night hotel. (PS: permits of vehicles to Djibouti now are very complicated. Minimum needed 45 days to get the permits. Extra cost: which is included in the tour cost) very nice beach and colorful town.
Day 10: Drive to Djibouti (can also be done one at night on the boat. But cost is quite high. PS. Inform us if you are up to boating or drive). If in Djibouti, at night Sheraton (expensive for a room; or be informed if you prefer cheaper relatively 3* Menelike hotel for a room).
Day 11: Drive to Lake Abe for very nice views at night camp
Day 12: Enter back to Ethiopia (Multiple re-entry Visa can be obtained in Djibouti or other wise in Addis making tour and permits (inform us which you prefer) and at night Dire Dawa at Ras hotel.
Day 13: Drive Harar and visit of walls, mosques, French poet Rimbaud house, Adere people, markets, and more. Evening hyena-man performance at night Belayneh hotel
Day 14: Drive or fly back to Addis via Dire Dawa.
Day 15: Tour of Addis and departure.