Best of Harar – A Medieval-Walled City, Hyena Feeding (2 Days)

Fly from Addis Ababa to Harar on one of several Ethiopian Airlines flights. We recommend catching the early morning flight such as the ET 206 (6:25am departure) or the ET 214 (7:20am departure)

Driving tour of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia’s second largest city. Here, you can visit the Awadai khat market. Khat is a leafy plant that acts as a stimulant when chewed and is widely consumed in the region

Drive 68kms (1.5 hours) to Harar City

Walking tour around the streets of the old city

Visit the domed Awaach of Amir Nur - Amir is the 16th century ruler who constructed the walls around Harar Jugol. It is the most important of 438 Awaach (shrines) dotted around the old town

Visit the Al-Jami Mosque - Reputedly founded in the 10th century and includes one minaret dating to the 1760s

At dusk, you will watch Harar’s famous Hyena men emerge to feed wild hyenas

You will be staying an available tourist standard hotel in Harar

Visit the Arthur Rimbaud Museum - Housed in the beautiful fresco-ceilinged house where its namesake poet-turned-trader reputedly lived in the late 19th century. It now functions as a museum with displays dedicated to the poet and a fascinating collection of monochrome photographs of the city taken in the late 19th and early 20th century

Visit the Sherif Harari City Museum - Set in the wide-balconied double-story mansion where Emperor Haile Selassie spent much of his childhood. It hosts a superb private collection of antique Islamic manuscripts, Harari coins minted during the 18th century, traditional Harari costumes, musical instruments, and household artefacts

Visit the Shoa Gate market - Here you will have opportunity to shop indigenous handicrafts and jewelries

Drive back to Diredawa City for a transfer to Diredawa Airport

We recommend flights departing late afternoon/early evening such as the ET 225 (5:15pm departure), the ET 223 (6:25pm departure) or the ET 221 (8:15pm departure)

Tour Concludes