Fly to Addis Ababa and pick up to the hotel by special car. The city was built by Menelik II in 1886 at an altitude of 2,438 meters and is the third highest capital in the world. Visit the National Museum, which houses the remains of Lucy, the Australopithecus, the earliest known ancestor of human beings, 3.2 million years ago; And Holy Trinity Church, where the body of the last emperor Haile Selassie is buried.

Take a flight to Simira, the capital of Afar region, and continue to ride for 3 hours to Everdra Salt Lake, where you will meet with the hiking guide and 2 guards to start the exploration of Ertael active volcano in Danakil Desert.

Dining: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Accommodation: Temporary tent camp

I woke up from my tent at dawn and saw the magical lava lake again. After breakfast, follow the rugged trail through the lava desert to Hamed de Ella. Here, you can see the scene of miners collecting salt mines, and the desert camel convoy transporting salt blocks slowly towards the end of the horizon. According to local legend, an evil spirit called Abo Lalu will haunt the salt mine at night, and our guides will try their best to keep you safe (bad laugh).

Accommodation: Temporary tent camps

Crossing the Dallol Depression, at an altitude of 116 meters, it is one of the lowest and hottest places in the world, and is known as the hottest place on earth. The boundless land is covered with a thick layer of saline and alkali, hundreds of steam nozzles and highly acidic lakes of different colors. Eventually a 5-hour ride back to Semilla.

Take the flight back to Addis Ababa and continue the 4-hour ride to Lake Langano. Different from the barren and barren area of Afar, it has a completely different lakeside scenery, and it is the best place to transit and rest. Here, you can recharge your batteries and prepare to start the tribal exploration journey of Omo Valley.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

Take a 5-hour ride to Albanenchi and visit Awash National Park, the oldest in Ethiopia, with a chance to see flamingo colonies feeding on blue-green algae; You will also visit the Omo-speaking Doze tribe, famous for its honeycomb houses built by plants and the production of high-quality cotton. In the evening, take a boat tour of Lake Chamo, tracking crocodiles, hippos and waterfowl inhabiting the river’s banks.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

Head to Konso, famous for its intricate terraced farming, where Kushit-speaking aborigines decorate tombs with carved totems. Visit the Elbore tribe, where women wear black veils on their faces, but their bodies are all half naked and shaved to their heads, forming a strong visual contrast.

Finally, walk into the Hamar tribe. They grow millet, tobacco and cotton, and raise cattle and goats. Famous for making fine pottery and clay bun with ostrich feathers worn by male warriors on hunting. Women wear beaded necklaces and iron hoops on their arms, and decorate their skin with cowhide shells to symbolize wealth and prestige.

The guide will ask in advance if there is a local man’s coming-of-age ceremony-bull jumping ceremony in the near future. If you are lucky, it will be a rare experience.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

First, follow the path shaded by weeds through the grasslands to Murule and visit the village of Karo. Using clay and vegetable dyes, they paint exquisite and intricate totems on the face and body. Patterns have no symbolic meaning and are created purely for aesthetic reasons. In the afternoon, take a bus to Jinka, visit Jinka Museum, and learn about the relationship and development between tribes in Omo Valley.

If you catch up with the local market, you will be guided into it, and you will have the opportunity to meet the aborigines of Ali, Bena, Hamar and Tesheme. Bena and Hamar women like to wear their hair in red clay braids, buttered and shiny. Tesheme women would tie a stick behind their long skirts to show that they were married; Men will carefully weave their hairstyles and decorate them with feathers and colorful beads.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

Head to Margo National Park and visit the Moxi tribe, famous for their exaggerated lip plate shapes decorated with them. From an early age, the girl cut her lips open and decorated them with plates. Over time, the area of the plates became larger and larger.

Although the Moxi civilians were very friendly to contact them, the Moxi warriors gave people a sense of majesty and awe-inspiration. They have deep crescent-shaped scars on their arms, representing the number of enemies they kill in battle.

Finally, take the flight back to Addis Ababa.

Accommodation: Sheraton Addis Hotel

Take a flight to Lalibela Rock Church. In the late 12 th and early 13 th centuries, King Lalibela of the Sagway Dynasty built a series of rock churches between rugged mountains and cliffs, which used more than 10,000 manpower and took 24 years to build them. Today we will visit six rock churches in the northwest, including Bet Medhane Alem, the largest.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

Today’s visit to the 5 rock church clusters in the southeast is more irregular in architectural design than yesterday’s northwest church cluster, including the most exquisite and stately Bet Giyorgis, which is isolated and can only be reached through tunnels.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

A 5-hour ride to Gondar, once the old city of the Ethiopian dynasty. In the 200 years since Emperor Facilidas made Gondar its capital in the 17 th century, successive emperors have built more than a dozen castles to show the glory of the kingdom. In the afternoon, visit the most famous Facilidas Castle and ancient buildings.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

Take a 3-hour bus to Bahir Dar, visit the Nile Waterfall often accompanied by rainbows in the afternoon, and taste authentic coffee at local tea stalls.

Accommodation: Best local hotels

Morning cruise to Lake Tana to visit two monasteries with exquisite frescoes dating back 250 years and depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments. In the afternoon, fly back to Addis Ababa, check-in to guest rooms and rest, enjoy dinner and taste sweet wine brewed with honey, water and shrub plants.

According to the flight time, a special car will drop off the airport and end the trip.

Accommodation: Sheraton Addis Hotel