Hi fellow travelers!
Just throwing this out there to see what people say so my friend and I can start planning our trip - 2 females, 30's/40's, one Canadian, one American.
We want to visit Ethiopia and surrounding countries for a month starting the last week of Dec through the third week of January. We definitely want to be in Ethiopia for Leddet on Jan 7th, so the first week will clearly be in Ethiopia. Another requirement is Somaliland for the appropriate amount of time. We're looking for recommendations on how to construct the trip, including understanding if we should do a round trip and return to Addis for the outgoing flight, or leave from somewhere else.
Other than that Ethiopia, especially for Leddit, she was thinking to add in Uganda and Kenya. I was thinking Eritrea and Djibouti (although I don't know much about it, but just figured we would cover the northern part of east africa on this trip, and do Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, for instance, on another). I do understand Eritrea might require a fight to Yemen to transit in.
So, I guess first thing is - which part of east africa does it make sense to combine with Ethiopia and Somaliland?
After that, can anyone recommend a 4 week route that makes sense? We're into the usual - tours only where safety/logistics require it or where we would learn much more from it, nature, culture, wandering, history, public transportation as appropriate. We not so budget constrained, but also am not into exorbitant spending.
I'd love to hear your thoughts as we start this pretty overwhelming planning, as the near term action is to purchase fights. We'll then dig into the research for each country.
Thanks in advance for you help!
Cheers!
