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Harenna Forest — Southern Escarpment Cloud Forest Below the Sanetti Plateau
Mist-soaked Afromontane forest on the south face of Bale Mountains National Park, where the Sanetti road drops from…
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Overlanding Trails in Ethiopia
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Dinsho Park Headquarters Campsite — Bale Mountains National Park
Basic campsite at Bale Mountains National Park HQ, a cold, high-altitude staging point where mountain nyala wander through…
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Sanetti Plateau — Tulu Dimtu Afro-Alpine Wild Camping
Camp on Africa's highest all-weather road plateau, a 4,000-metre-plus afro-alpine moorland under Ethiopia's second-highest peak, with Ethiopian wolves…
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Ras Dashen — Ethiopia’s Roof and Simien Summit Viewpoint
At 4,550m, Ras Dashen is the highest peak in Ethiopia and the fourth highest in Africa — the…
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Sankaber Campsite — Simien Mountains National Park
The primary developed campsite inside Simien Mountains NP, sitting on the escarpment edge with views that'll stop you…
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Simien Mountains National Park — Chenek Escarpment Rim Dispersed Camp
High-altitude dispersed camping on the gelada baboon-haunted escarpment rim above the Chenek viewpoint, with sheer 1,500m drops into…
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Erta Ale — Active Lava Lake Viewpoint
A permanently active lava lake inside a shield volcano in Ethiopia's Danakil Depression — one of the most…
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Omo Valley — Turmi Tribal Lowlands Viewpoint
Remote river valley in southern Ethiopia where Hamar, Daasanach, and Karo people live in ways unchanged for centuries…
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Simien Mountains — Imet Gogo Escarpment Viewpoint
A UNESCO World Heritage escarpment edge in northern Ethiopia dropping over 1,500m to the lowlands — Gelada baboons…
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Bale Mountains National Park — Sanetti Plateau Web Valley Viewpoint
Highest all-weather road in Africa crosses an Afroalpine plateau where Ethiopian wolves hunt giant mole-rats at 4,000 metres…