2-Day Wild Wonder and Rift Valley Escape Awash NP Safari

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Addis Ababa Drive to Awash National Park

Our driver-guide will pick you up from the hotel at 7:30 AM. Then, you set off to join the Express Way, which will get you to Adama, formerly Nazereth, in about an hour.
You will stop en route at Beseka Lake, home to many water birds, including Striped (or Green-backed) and Black-headed Herons, Red-billed Teal, White-backed and Maccoa Ducks, and Common Crane.

Driving from the park gate toward the Awash River, you can expect to see some mammals, such as Beisa Oryx, Klipspringer, Hamadryas and Anubis baboons, Salt’s Dikidik, Grivet Monkey and others.
As the temperature subsides in the late afternoon, you can do a game drive. In addition to the species mentioned above, you may see Soemmerring’s Gazelle, lesser and greater Kudus, Warthogs, Defassa waterbuck, Colobus and Grivet monkeys, Black-Backed and Golden Jackals, Caracals, Servals, Wildcats. If lucky, leopards and lions. Over 400 species of birds have been recorded in Awash National Park.

Main Destination:

Awash National Park

Best Time To Visit October to February (Little rain and less hot)

High Season September to April (The park is never busy)

Best Weather October to February

Wildlife in Awash NP

Olive Baboon Abundant

Beisa Oryx Common

Soemmerring's
Gazelle Common

Hamadryas
Baboon Common

Salt's Dik-dik Common

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Lesser Kudu Occasional

Desert Warthog Occasional

Defassa Waterbuck Occasional

Nile Crocodile Occasional

Spotted Hyena Occasional

Guereza Monkey Rare

Ethiopian Wolf None

Gelada Monkey None

Walia Ibex None

Accommodation:

Genet Hotel Awash

• Mid-range hotel located less than 1hr drive from Awash NP

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Early Morning Game Drive back to Addis Ababa

You will exit the park and drive east, crossing the main road and heading towards Filwuha Hot Spring. This is a hot springs oasis where luxuriant vegetation flourishes in the midst of a lava desert that is home to the rare, restricted-range Sombre Rock Chat, which favours old lava flows and some other birdlife. In the cliffs behind the springs are colonies of Hamdryas baboons. The hot springs are crystal clear and extremely hot — better to get in early morning or late afternoon.
After those activities, you drive back, have lunch in Adama or Nazret town, then go back to Addis for your international flight or back to your hotel. End of the tour.

Main Destination:

Awash National Park

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.