Remote Corners of Ethiopia

Day 1: Addis Ababa 

Fly into Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa. Upon landing, clear Immigration, collect your luggage and exit the airport to meet your driver-guide for a city tour and introduction to Ethiopia. The city tour will take in a few highlights like the National and Ethnological museums, Trinity Cathedral and St George's Church and gallery. 

Overnight: Hyatt Regency Hotel

Included: Professional Guide, Private Minivan, All meals (excluding alcohol).

Day 2: Gambella National Park

Transfer to the airport for a charter flight west to Gambella National Park, the most remote wilderness in Ethiopia. Met by the team upon landing, you will be transferred to the tented camp. Enjoy an evening walk in the vicinity of the tented camp.

The camp is situated in a grove of trees, close to the pan handle of the park which joins the Baro river. It is an ideal location from which to explore the Northern boundary of the park, which tends to get the most of the Kob Migration.

Overnight: Gambella Tented Camp

Included: Charter flight, professional guide, 4x4 vehicle, all meals and bar. 

Day 3: Gambella National Park

Take a flight across the swamp lands of Gambella, looking for Shoebills, Nile lechwe as well as big herds of buffalo and lion.

Depending on time of year, witness incredible numbers of Kob on the edge of the park. Evening walk in the vicinity of the camp.

Overnight: Gambella Tented Camp

Included: Charter flight, professional guide, 4x4 vehicle, all meals and bar. 

Day 4: Gambella National Park

Drive down (2 hours) to the plains in the North West corner of the park to see big herds of Kob and visit the Nuer cattle camps. Overnight in fly-camp on river or flooded oxbow surrounded by a multitude of birds. 

Overnight: Gambella Tented Camp

Included: Professional guide, 4x4 vehicle, all meals and bar.

Day 5: Gambella National Park

Drive back to the tented camp (2 hours). Fly across to the drier South West of the park and look for elephant and giraffe. The lakes and pans down here have the most incredible birdlife. Evening walk/drive in the vicinity of camp. 

Overnight: Gambella Tented Camp

Included: Professional guide, 4x4 vehicle, all meals and bar.

Day 6: Gambella National Park.

Transfer to Gambella town to catch a commercial flight back to Addis Ababa.

Collect your luggage and exit the airport to meet your driver for transfer to the hotel where a room is included for day use. On the last evening of the adventure, head to a good restaurant in town for a farewell dinner, before transferring to the airport to catch your domestic flight home. 

Day Room: Hyatt Regency Hotel

Included: Domestic flight, farewell meal.