Two days and half trip in a savannah landscape where Awash river flows into a panoramic gorge
Awash National Park is in the Eastern part of Ethiopia, a dry savannah, typical of the Rift Valley, and geologically it is part of the Afar triangle. The park has the charm of a border post: the big shape of Fantale volcano, hot springs among palm trees, acacias and grasslands with antelopes, dik dik, crocodiles in the gorge of the Awash river. And time seems to have stopped along the old and now out of order railway tracks from Addis Abeba to Gibuti.
Kereyou people that live at the western borders of the park are shepherds of goats and camels; they belong to Oromo group and still practice the Gada system, an ancient and democratic model of political and social organization.
Day 1. Addis Abeba – Awash Park. Leave Addis Abeba in the early afternoon to the east; arrival at Awash park, walking to the falls and along the river. Night at Awash Falls Lodge
Day 2. Park and hot springs. Game drive through the National Park; lunch at Doho Lodge; drive through the park up to an oasis of natural hot springs. Night at Doho Lodge
Day 3. Karayou village – Addis Abeba. Meeting with a family in a Karayu village; drive to the north up to Addis Abeba.
