Simien Mountains Exploration: 4-Day Trek on Ethiopia's Highest Peaks
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7 Ratings

This extensive trek explores in depth one of Africans largest mountain ranges, studded with at least a dozen peaks over the 4,000m mark. These include Ras Dejen the highest point in Ethiopia, and the 4th highest peak in Africa. The area was designated a national park in 1966, and the entire range a UNESCO world heritage site in 1978.

Duration: 4 days
Cancellation: 3 days learn more
Highlights

Simien Mountains National Park - Pick you at Gondar Airport or your hotel, drive along a good paved road from Gondar to the park headquarters in Debark. The 100 km journey will take around two hours. At the headquarters we will arrange our permits to the park and pick up our scout. After that we will drive for another hour before we start our first day introductory walk. This first hike is an easy one along the northern edge of the escarpment with a nice view points over the foothills and plains of northern Ethiopia. You will encounter gelada baboon along this hike.

What's Included
  • Park entrance fees included
  • Round-trip transportation
  • Mule service with muleteers for luggage transport
  • Camping equipment: Tent, Mattress, Sleeping bags
  • Compulsory park ranger service
  • Experienced English-speaking guide
  • Dedicated cook for daily fresh meals
  • Food and Mineral water provided
What's Not Included
  • International and Local flights
  • Any alcoholic drinks
  • Any videographer or camera fee needed
  • Any expense of Personal items like internet, fax, telephone
  • Laundry service
  • Services which are not mentioned in the above section
Cancellation Policy

If you cancel at least 4 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.

Customer Ratings
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241filg
Dec 7, 2019
Ett provided so wonderful Service. - We booked the Simien mountains trekking with Ethio Travel and Tours and they provided a great service for us. Starting from the office the travel agents welcomed us very well and helped us to choose a perfect tour packages for us. And also the tour guide and the driver made the trip more amazing.
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Henok
Oct 26, 2019
Wonderful Trip to Simien Mountains - THANK YOU! The trip you arranged for us met and exceeded all our expectations our tour guide, was the key ingredient that made things happened. We followed generally the prepared schedule but made modifications to accommodate our needs to minimize walking. Thanks again for everything.
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Lropp
Sep 12, 2019
Simien Mountains are incredible! - We had a really amazing trip with David as our guide for 4 days of trekking in the Simien Mountains. What an incredible park -- stunning views and an environment that's truly unique (I've never seen another landscape like it). We got to see tons of geladas up close and personal, in addition to a few walia ibex from a bit farther away. The camping experience was very good, our food was delicious and filling every day, and the porters and cook staff were all friendly and extremely accommodating. David did a great job of setting a comfortable walking pace every day on the trek, and provided us with plenty of laughs and incredible stories, especially about guiding David Attenborough when he visited the Simiens to film a documentary. No part of the trek felt uncomfortably difficult or strenuous, though if you're not used to higher altitudes be prepared for a bit of huffing and puffing as you acclimatize.
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W5684cralexg
Jul 18, 2019
Very nice arrangement - Just finished my second trip with ETT the first was to the southern Ethiopia with guide Daniel this one was to Danakil with guide Zenebe. Both trips were an adventure to remember I am sold on this company’s professionalism and welcoming atmosphere the guides are great fun and extremely friendly and helpful and the group of guys on the trips where great too. If you travel solo, with a friend or your partner it’s a great experience.
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Domiz65
Jul 17, 2019
Amazing Trekking experience! - We had a wonderful time in the Siemen mountain with ETT. We want to say many thanks to the ETT Team for organizing the trip and for making all these moments possible, thank you Yonas for being the best Guide you can ask for, having always a smile on his face. We highly recommend ETT
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He_z
Nov 19, 2019
ETT is pure nightmare. Bale does not go to harena forest!! - All my trip itineraries with ETT were lies. Semien 4 day does not go to geesh. Bale 3 day does NOT go to harena forest. And they didnt even book bale hotels! We got to goba to find out both hotels were full and had to drive back to Robe. Then they had the gall to try stuffing me in a filthy motel without tap water (they again lied to me the whole town didnt have water bc of fighting) and i had to insist for a better hotel (surprise surprise it had water and electricity). Their lies cost me precious visit time bc i only have the resources to visit ethiopia once. Semien camp condition is beyond filthy that we could not bare to use what they call toilet. No shower. 4 days of trekking without a single shred of meat. Cook hissed at me bc i hadnt tipped him yet. If you plan to go to ethiopia only once like me, do your homework avoid ETT. You need at least 4 days for bale and semien 2-3 day is quite enough unless you love trekking - but don't forget the unbearable toilet and filthy kitchen and no shower. Do not believe good reviews for ETT. No traveler would so eagerly mention company names. I find their names mentioned early in reviews too suspiciously often. Ive been on many many tours and don't ever remember or even know the company name unless its so bad that i need to warn others.
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Aileen
Oct 28, 2019
Pure nightmare - The nature there is stunning. We loved our group (11 pax is a great amount of people) and appreciate the hard work of the chef who served two amazing dinners in a really basic environment (we saw the kitchen, wow). Unfortunately we also have some major critical points that we want to share. First of all: the beginning. We were the first to be picked up and drove around Gondar for 1,5 hours for picking up food, people, more food, drinks etc. Samy is not the right guide for the mountain tracking. He didn’t know much about the environment, the plants or the animals. On the first day, he led us right into a thunderstorm, on the second day her led us right into ice rain. While everybody got wet he started to panic and didn’t know what to do. When the group started to criticize that, her ran off and didn’t care about the group anymore. Three people got sick because of the altitude. No one cared. The group complained about the hiking speed which he didn’t seem to care off. I wished he had listened to the scouts instead of showing off what a great guy he wants to be. I personally find it very odd to pose like a Taliban with a Ak47 and ask people to take a picture of him. And is it really necessary to wear the exact same T-shirt three days in a row? But what really pisses me off is the accommodation. I don’t mind sleeping in a community lodge but they were full of bed bugs. I hate bed bugs! There was no possibility to wash your hands after trecking and there was also no campfire to warm up after you got soaking wet while hiking through the thunderstorm. On the second day we shared the lodge with at least 20 Ethiopians and I think The guide subrentet the lodge. There was also no first aid kid or rope in case of an accident what I personally find quite dangerous. We also run a bit short on food. More food was coming only after the group complaint about the hunger (and assume food was bought and kept for other purposes). All in all I think it should be organized a lot better. On the way back to Gondar we got picked up in the base camp with a car that run short on gas. Surprisingly we ran out of gas some 20 km before Gondar after passing a couple of gas stations. We hope that this feedback helps to improve the next tours cause I think there is a lot of potential. We wrote a email to the company haven’t gotten any reaction.
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