Ethiopia holidays, tailor made reviewed by Kim Mahon
The Simeon Mountains where we were lucky enough to see 5 Ibex in one day with our wonderful interesting guide Desu ( who knew to much about the
flora & fauna of the country as he was born there!) and the Bale Mountains were we spent a very lovely afternoon walking through the forest with a guide
Hussain and saw so many animals Nyala, Reedbuck, Bushbuck and Wort hogs.
All the animals were so close to us and it was a really fabulous time.
Raphael was also a very good guide in the Axum area and we so enjoyed seeing Yaha which was such an important place 2000 years agon and we were lucky
enough to meet the German and the Italian archeologists who were working on site and told us so much
Go with an open mind and do not expect wonderful hotels.The four of us found it a fascinating, mind broadening and sometimes humbling experience rather than as a holiday but we do say go and have a look and appreciate an interesting very ancient country that is now very poor. The people are wonderful and help make the country so good.
We had three weeks of traveling around Ethiopia with at least five internal flights within the country so we tried to cover the country which is simply VAST.
There were many days of long drives over rough roads but the drivers, 4 wheel drive cars and the guides were absolutely first rate.
Yes, that is what we intended to do rather than book through a UK ATOL and ABTA company when all the money goes to that company and not to the
people of the country that you are visiting.
During the three weeks we must have given employment to all the guides, the drivers, the hotels, and the people who work in those hotels.
Our visits to the Simeon and the Bale mountains certainly benefited the National Parks and our entry fee had already been paid by Eskinder as he had paid
for all the entry fees to all the sites.
We would give the tour a very top rating and we would use Responsible Travel again to visit other interesting countries.
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