Addis Abeba airport
Welcome to Ethiopia, for birding, we will meet you at the airport, and proceed to the hotel which is around 15 min drive after checked in, we will set an appointment when to see you, after taking rest we will take you for short city tour to explore Addis Abeba, then back to your hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Addis Ababa (City)
- Accommodation:
- Nexus Addis
- Meals & Drinks:
Gefersa Reservoir
After you have your breakfast, we will drive to Gefersa Reservoir, which is the hot spot for birding you will see hundreds of different birds some of them are Egyptian GooseNorthern Shovele, African Black Duck, Yellow-billed Duck, Red-eyed Dove, Long-tailed Cormorant, White-collared Pigeon, Wattled Ibis etc many other. Then we will return back to the hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Addis Ababa (City)
- Accommodation:
- Nexus Addis
- Meals & Drinks:
Debre Libanos and Solulta Plain
Today We will drive to Debre Libanos explore the amazing avifauna of Ethiopia. There are many species along this route to see include Lammergeier, Vulture, Yellow-billed Kite, Tacazze Sunbird, African Citril, Thick-billed Raven. The road passes through fields. We will also see like Wattled Ibis, grassland, and small marshes of the Solulta Plain here we can see Endemics birds like Abyssinian Long claw, Blue-winged Goose, Wattled Ibis, Rouget’s Rail, White-collared Pigeon, Ethiopian Cisticola and Black-headed Siskin. We will return back to the hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Debre Libanos Monastery (Highlight)
- Accommodation:
- Nexus Addis
- Meals & Drinks:
Addis to Awash National Park
We Have to leave early in the morning today to reach the lower volcanic lava flows of the extinct Fantale Crater where we can get the Endemic like Shining Sunbird, Striolated Bunting, Chestnut-headed, Chestnut-eared Sparrow-larks, Blackstart,
We are going to spent longer time at Awash National Park. This park is home to a huge variety of habitats and great birds will explore a variety of including savanna grasslands, wetlands, thorn woodlands, riverine forests. The park boasts a bird list of more than 450 species and we hope to find some of them amongst many others, Yellow-necked Spurfowl, Small, Buttonquail, Somali Ostrich, Greater Spotted Eagle, Bateleur, African Swallow-tailed Kite, Buff-crested, Arabian, Hartlaub's, Brown Snake Eagles, Black-chested, Shikra, Pygmy Falcon, Lesser Kestrel, Kori, White-bellied Bustards, Chestnut-bellied, Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse, then we drive to the hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Awash National Park
- Accommodation:
- Genet Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Awash - Langano
Rift Valley Excellent for birding here you can found many birds around the lush vegetation of the three neighboring lakes in the central Ethiopian Rift Valley and we will spend most of the day exploring the shores and surrounding woodland. Initially we will find Abyssinian Ground Thrush, Then we can walk the trails through great habitat in search of Scaly Francolin, Tambourine Dove, Scaly-throated Honeyguide, Red-capped Robin-chat, Green Twinspot. We will find Somali Ostrich, huge flocks of Greater, Lesser Flamingos, Black, Goliath, Squacco, Purple Herons, Spur-winged Goose, African Pygmy-goose, African Fish-eagle, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Ayres’s Hawk-eagle, Imperial, Malachite Kingfisher, Long-crested Eagles, Grey Kestrel, African Harrier-hawk, Kittlitz's Plover, Blue-spotted Wood Dove, Great Black-headed Gull, Northern Carmine, Little Bee-eaters, Lemon Dove, what a great day to see all those birds.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Langano
- Accommodation:
- Sabana Beach Resort
- Meals & Drinks:
Lake Abyata and Lake Shala
An early morning we drive to Lake Abiata and Shalla, It is the most memorable place of the tour with thousands of Lesser Flamingo's present. Smaller numbers of Greater Flamingo's are also here, along with thousands of Kittlitz's Plover, The Acacia woodland is home to Black-billed Wood-hoopoe, Bearded Woodpecker, Black Scimitarbill, White-winged Black Tit, African Spoonbill, Sacred Ibis, Marabou Stork, Buff-bellied Warbler, Cinnamon-breasted Bunting. African Fish-Eagle, and many other species. In the afternoon we will drive back to the lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Langano
- Accommodation:
- Sabana Beach Resort
- Meals & Drinks:
Wondo Genet
Spend the day birding in the forest of Wendo Genet. We will See endemic birds Abyssinian Wood Pecker and Banded Barbet.
Yellow-fronted Parrot, White-checked Turaco, Thick-billed Raven, Grey Cuckoo-shrike, Red-shouldered, Narin’s Trogon, Black Cuckoo-shrikes, Scaly and Lesser Honeyguide. Overnight Haile Resort Hawassa.
- Main Destination:
- Awasa (City)
- Accommodation:
- Haile Resort Hawassa
- Meals & Drinks:
Bale Mountain
We will drive to Bale Mountain. At the park headquarters in Dinsho we will get our entrance and our scout then we will search for Abyssinian Siskin. African Wood Owl, Black-winged Lapwing, Abyssinian Owl, Abyssinian Ground-thrush, Abyssinian Catbird, Groundscraper, White-backed Black Tit. We will see a variety of mammals including Mountain Nyala, Menelik’s Bushbuck and Desert Warthog. then we drive to Bale Goba for over night.
- Main Destination:
- Bale Mountains National Park
- Accommodation:
- Goba Wabe Shebelle Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Bale Mountains - Sanetti Plateau
Bale Mountain is home to many birds, and mammals, here we found Endemic birds and Mammals, like Niala, Red fox, etc the Sanetti Plateau, and we shall spend most of this day at an altitude between 3800m and 4377m (Tullu Deemtu). As we ascend we will enter a Tid or Juniper forest zone, and here we will look for Abyssinian Woodpecker, African Goshawk, African Hill Babbler, Rufous-chested Sparrowhawk, Ruppell's Robin-chat, Yellow-bellied, Waxbill. Broad-ringed White-eye, Yellow-fronted Parrot. We will drive up to the hill and see the unique plateau which is Africa’s highest Afro-alpine moorland that is home to fourteen of Ethiopia’s highland specialties. If you are laky you will see the endangered Wattled Cranes and we will spend quite a while trying to locate them. We will see Black Stork, Wattled Ibis, Steppe and Golden Eagles, Pallid Harrier, African Snipe. Then we will back to the hotel.
- Main Destination:
- Bale Mountains National Park
- Accommodation:
- Goba Wabe Shebelle Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Goba - Debre Zeyit
Today we drive from Bale Mountain to Lake Debreziyt, we will have lunch in Lake Ziway and birding at Lake Ziway where the surrounding lake teems with birds, and we will look for flocks of approachable Black-Winged Lovebirds, Blue-breasted Bee-Eaters, White-Faced Whistling Ducks, Hottentot Teals, Great White Pelicans, Black Herons, Black-Billed Barbet, Rufous-necked, then proceed to Lake Debreziyt The Babogaya Lake Viewpoint Lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Ziway
- Accommodation:
- The Babogaya Lake Viewpoint Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Debreziyt - Addis Abeba
Today we will drive back to Addis Abeba, we will take you to your hotel after check-in. Then we will make a city tour and shipping. Today you will be our guest we will have a farewell dinner in one of the best Ethiopian traditional restaurant departing back home.
- Main Destination:
- Addis Ababa (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: