6-Day Addis Ababa and Harar Heritage Tour with Awash National Park

• Upon arrival at Bole International Airport, meet your representative and transfer to your hotel.

• After checking in, enjoy a city tour of Addis. First, go to the National Museum, home to the famous complete hominid fossil remains of Lucy, dating back 3.2 million years.

• Continue to Mount Entoto, a panoramic viewpoint at the highest peak in Addis, with an altitude of 3,200 metres above sea level. Then visit Trinity Cathedral, a beautiful church with a Baroque style of European architecture unique to both Ethiopia and Africa, as well as the Ethnographic Museum and Merkato, the largest open-air market in Africa.

Overnight in your hotel.

• After breakfast, drive from Addis to Awash National Park through the awe-inspiring crater lakes of Debrezeit.

• The next stop will be at Lake Beseka.

• Then continue to Awash National Park.

Overnight at Awash Sebat Kilo in your hotel.

• Enjoy birding in Awash National Park, located in the Rift Valley. It is enriched with many species of birds and mammals, including African orange-bellied parrots, bustards, weavers, European hoopoe, somber rock-chat, yellow-throated serine, red-fronted barbet, pygmy batis, lesser striped swallow, house martin, and mammals such as Anubis baboon, colobus monkey, black-backed jackal, bat-eared fox, Egyptian mongoose, warthog, Beisa oryx, Soemmering's gazelle, lesser kudu, and Salt's dik-dik.

Overnight in your hotel.

• After breakfast, drive to the fortified city of Harar. Harar is the holy city of Ethiopia's Muslim community and is believed to be the fourth-holiest city after Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem.

Overnight in your hotel.

• On this day, visit the city of Harar on a full-day tour. The Old City Wall of Harar is the main attraction and a symbol of Islamic architecture. Harar has approximately 90 mosques, forming the largest concentration of mosques in the world. Visit the Jegol Wall, the National Museum, the Harari Museum, and caves with prehistorical paintings.

• After lunch, visit the House of Ras Mekonnen, Jamia Mosque, Emir Nur's Tomb, a traditional Harari home, and enjoy the Hyena Man show at night.

Overnight in your hotel.

• After breakfast, drive back to Addis.

• En route, visit Debre Zeit Lake, one of the Rift Valley lakes, which has many aquatic birds.

• In the evening, enjoy a farewell dinner at one of the Ethiopian restaurants, with cultural dinner and dances from different ethnic groups.

• Then transfer to the airport to fly back home, where your tour ends.