Day 1
Meeting at the airport or hotel (transfer to the airport). Flight from Addis Ababa to Samara after welcoming our tourists drive to Erta Ale. As the sun goes down you will start the 20 minutes hike up to the crater rim of the Erta Ale volcano.The Erta Ale volcano has been in a constant state of eruption and registerd as one of the few lava lakes of our planet. Once arrived at the top you will descend into the caldera and proceed to the crater’s edge and be part of the few people who have see with there own eyes the Erta Ale lava lake
- Overnight: In a matrass admiring the stars. Feeling the basalt lava field of Erta Ale. (At the car parking of Erta Ale).
- 155 km (6h). Altitude Erta Ale 613 Meters above sea level.
Day 2
After breakfast derive 80km to the village of Hamedeila and after reach Hamedeila we have lunch around 3 after we derive 20 km to Dallol and Asale wich is 136 Metres below sea level and is believed that the second lowest point of Africa after Lac Asal in Djibouti. Admire the stunning landscape, concretion of many shades of red, yellow and orange from the hot water, sulfuric acids and minerals spurting up from the ground.
- Over night at Ahmed ila in open air and dinner by our cook.
Day 3
Day drive to Mekelle, in Mekelle you will see the museum and palace of Emperor Johann (the king who was found in Mekelle), after the flight to Addis Ababa we will have a short visit to the national museum, after the museum dinner in a traditional restaurant, and during this day in the evening return home
Attention!!! You can add a 4th day to the tour program.
Day 4
On this day you can visit the famous rock church of Tigray, which is located 80 km from Mekelle