DURATION : 04 DAYS
TRANSPORTATION : SURFACE
Bale Mountains National Park
Is an area of high altitude plateau is broken by numerous spectacular volcanic plugs and peaks, beautiful alpine lakes and rushing mountain streams that descend into deep rocky gorges on their way to the lowlands below. As you ascend into the mountains you will experience changes in the vegetation with altitude, from juniper forests to heather moorlands and alpine meadows, which at various times of year exhibit an abundance of colorful wildflowers. Bale Mountains massifs is the largest area of Afro-Alpine habitat in the whole of African continent, that gives the visitor opportunities for unsurpassed mountain walking, scenic driving and chances to view numbers of Abyssinian and Ethiopia’s endemic fauna and flora.
Animals: Ethiopian Wolf, Mountain Nyala, Bohor Reedbuck, Menelik’s Bushbuck, Grey Duiker, Warthog, Klipspringer, Starck’s Hare, Giant Molerat, Rock Hyrax, Anubis Baboon, Vervet Monkey, Bale Monkey and Serval Cat.
Birds: Bale Parisoma, Blue-winged Goose, Wattled Ibis, Rouget’s Rail, Spot-breasted Plover, Black-winged Plover, Abyssinian Longclaw, Abyssinian Owl, Thick-billed Raven, Abyssinian Catbird, Abyssinian Oriole, Abyssinian Woodpecker, Abyssinian Slaty Flycatcher, Abyssinian Ground Thrush, White-backed Black Tit, Yellow-fronted Parrot, Black-winged Lovebird, Chestnut-napped Francolin, Moorland Francolin, Moorland Chat, Ethiopian Chat Sp. Ethiopian/Black-headed Siskin, Ethiopian Cisticola, Wattled Crane, Ruddy Shelduck, Red-billed Chough, White-collared Pigeon, Erlanger’s Lark, Read-breasted Wheatear, Thekla Lark, Cape Rook, Groundscrapper Thrush, Red-billed Oxpecker, Red-throated Pipit, Grassland Pipit, Red-winged Starling, Slender-billed Starling, Blue-eared Starling and Ruppell’s Starling.
Birds of prey are numerous, Lammergeier, Tawny Eagle, Golden Eagle, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Varreaux’s Eagle, Ayre’s Eagle, Yellow-billed Kite, Hooded Vulture, Lappet-faced Vulture, White-backed Vulture, Ruppell’s Vulture, White-headed Vulture, Augur Buzzard, Mountain Buzzard, Montagu’s Harrier, Pallid Harrier, Western Marsh Harrier, Chanting Goshawk, Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk, Common and Lesser Kestrels, Lanner Falcon and Barbary Falcon.
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