1 DAY: LAKE LANGANO & ABIJATTA SHALLA NATIONAL PARK

DAY 1: LANGANO & ABIJATTA SHALLA NATIONAL PARK

We will have an early start in the morning to avoid incoming and ongoing traffic in the city of Addis Ababa. We will head south toward Abijatta Shalla National park. we will take breakfast in the car on the way. It is highly recommended to pack lunch boxes, drinking water and snacks. It is also helpful to wear good walking shoes. after we arrived Abijatta Shalla National Park, we will visit in Abijatta Shalla National Park.

Abijatta-Shalla National Park is a national park in Ethiopia. It is located in the Oromia Region and the Ethiopian Highlands region, 200 kilometers south of Addis Ababa, and east of the Batu–Shashamane highway.

It contains 887 square kilometers including the Rift Valley lakes of Abijatta and Shalla. The two lakes are separated by three kilometers of hilly land. The altitude of the park ranges from 1540 to 2075 meters, the highest peak being Mount Fike, which is situated between the two lakes. Abijatta-Shalla National Park has six main attractions: viewpoints, bird-watching, and photography. Abijatta and Shalla are two alkaline lakes that were formed during the volcanic activities of O’a Caldera and rare earthquakes. Besides the two lakes, the primary attraction of this national park are a number of hot springs on the northeast corner of Lake Abijatta, and large numbers of flamingoes on the lake. Care must be exercised in driving vehicles out to the edge of this lake, as the thin crust of dried mud on the surface can give way without warning. Rich hot springs are also found on Shalla’s southwest and eastern shores. Mount Fike is located between two lakes, befitting for trekking and viewpoint of three lakes, including Langano. Lake Chitu, a small blue-green saline lake, is found south of Lake Shalla which was covered in Blue-green algae.

After noon

we will enjoy in Lake Langano savanna lodge.

Lake Langano is a lake in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, exactly 200 kilometers by road south of the capital, Addis Ababa, on the border between the East Shewa Zone and Arsi Zones. It is located to the east of Lake Abijatta in the Main Ethiopian Rift at an elevation of 1,585 meters.

According to figures published by the Central Statistical Agency, Lake Langano is 18 kilometers long and 16 km wide, with a surface area of 230 square kilometers and a maximum depth of 46 meters. The lake has a catchment 1600 square kilometers in size, and is drained by the Hora Kallo river which empties into the adjacent Lake Abijatta.

After visiting lake langano , we will return to Addis Ababa.