3-Day Guassa Community Wildlife Safari

In the morning after an early breakfast, you'll leave Addis and drive to Guassa Community Conservation Area about 150km North of Addis. On arrival, you'll check in to the lodge and then take a short trek to discover the breathtaking views of the Guassa plateau, located along one of the significant historic routes of Ethiopia, filled with endemic mammals. Here, you'll have a chance to see the endemic Ethiopian wolf. The Ethiopian wolf is the only true wolf species in Africa and is legally protected. With a total world population of less than 500 individuals surviving in mountain tops, it is one of the most endangered mammal species in the world. You will spend your overnight stay at Guassa Community Lodge.

After breakfast, you'll explore the Guassa Plateau through a spectacular landscape of moorland where one can experience the vast highland flora, striking bird species like the Lammergeyer or bearded vulture, and wildlife including the endemic Ethiopian Wolf and Gelada Baboon. Other important species in the area include the gelada baboon. The gelada is the only surviving member of a once widespread genusTheropithecus. These baboons are the only grazing primates in the world. The Guassa population of gelada has doubled and is now the second highest population in Ethiopia next to the Simien Mountain National Park.

In the morning after breakfast, you'll take some time around for more chances of wildlife sightings and visit a village built traditionally, with distinctive two-storey stone houses covered with thatch. Wool carpets and woven blankets are considered the best in Ethiopia. Then, you'll drive back to Addis Ababa.