Ethiopia
ModerateSanetti Plateau Road — Goba to Harenna Forest via Tulu Dimtu
Africa's highest road, wolves and cloud forest
Overlanding Trails in Ethiopia
Trails curated for overlanders in Ethiopia.
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Mursi Tribe Village — Omo Valley Living Culture and Lip Plate Ceremony Viewpoint
The Mursi are one of the last tribes in Africa where women still wear traditional clay lip plates…
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Jinka Research Centre Campground — South Omo Zone Overland Basecamp
The go-to established camp for overlanders staging into Mago National Park and the Omo Valley, right in Jinka…
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Mago National Park — Neri River Sand Flat Dispersed Camp
Dry-season sand flat on the Neri River inside Mago — raw bush camping on the fringe of one…
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DifficultOmo Valley Wilderness Track — Jinka to Turmi via the Omo River Corridor and Mago National Park Fringe (South Ethiopia Classic)
Tribal Ethiopia on corrugated laterite.
Ethiopia
DifficultSimien Mountains High Road — Debark to Ras Dashen Base Camp via the Ethiopian Roof Escarpment (Full Traverse)
Africa's roof, raw and unforgiving.
Ethiopia
ExpertSimien Mountains High Road — Debark to Ras Dashen Base Camp via the Ethiopian Roof Escarpment
Ethiopia's escarpment edge — geladas, cliffs, and sky.
Ethiopia
ExpertTransafrica — Cairo to Cape Town via the East African Corridor
UNESCO escarpment edge. Geladas and 1,500m drops.
Ethiopia
ExpertNairobi to Moyale — Northern Kenya Desert Highway via Marsabit and the Chalbi Desert
Kenya's hardest highway — not even close.
Ethiopia
DifficultTrans-African Highway — Nairobi to Addis Ababa via the Moyale Border and Northern Kenya Desert Corridor
Northern Kenya's desert gauntlet to Ethiopia.