Depending On Where You Go!
Simien Mountains Lodge, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia
Type Of Travel
The types of travel were completely different on those 3 trips, mainly because you cannot travel the different areas of Ethiopia the same way:
- To visit the Danakil Depression, you must be on a tour, both because you absolutely need one (you have to have two Jeeps, an armed Afar policeman, an Afar scout, a military escort for Dallol, …) and because it is the law…
- True, you can discover the Lower Omo Valley on your own, but as there are almost no public transports, you have to have your own wheels if you don’t want to spend weeks there. Moreover, communication will be quite tricky if you do not speak Amharic. So a tour seems to be the only viable way…
- On the other hand, the Northern Historical Route can be easily done independently.
