kittykat23uk
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Well, with more research:
KittyKat: rather than spend 3 days at Bale itself, there are sites nearby that are well worth doing (Harenna, Gaysay, Sanetti, eg) with good mammals.
What's your default must-haves?
Like Andy, I'm not likely to return to Ethiopia, so would like to see as much as possible.
There are 340+ ticks for me, and I've been to Africa a few times!
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My must haves just to spend some time with the wolves, starck's hare and hopefully see a giant mole rat and get some good views of geladas. That's really it as far as must haves. Everything else is just gravy. When I was planning the trip in 2015 I was looking at around 3 weeks but I can't do more than 2 this side of april. After April I could do longer
So for Bale area as Richard said there's other good habitat there and what I had hoped to do was have a night in the dinsho area and 3 nights based in Goba , from there we would cover senetti plateau and Harenna forest etc
The other sites I hoped to fit in were Awash specifically to have one evening to watch all the Hyenas emerge from local caves, but there's good birding there too..
The rift valley lakes and surrounds so Debre zeit, Ziway and Langano on the way up and awassa on the way back down plus stopping at Debre libanos for the geladas.
That already takes us over the 2 weeks and I had also planned to include a few other sites. But obviously for a shorter tour there would need to be some cutting down.
It was being planned out with both birds and mammals as a focus. The details of a 16 night version of the tour are here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/.../edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=117289395145931489350