This trip is to Uganda, Ethiopia and Djibouti.
Heather's been suggesting Ethiopia for a trip for the past couple years, primarily to see the churches in Lalibela. Once we started googling we realized there is a lot of really cool stuff to see in Ethiopia. There's more rock hewn churches 200m up the side of cliffs in Tigray, a lava lake at Erta Ale, the Danakil Depression, and bands of gelada baboons while trekking in the Semien Mountains. Ethiopia is where coffee originates. It's a fairly mountainous country -- most of the time we'll be above 2,000m, and the highest camp of the trek is over 3,600m.
We added Uganda to the trip when I was looking at our world map in the basement, and realized Uganda was relatively close to Ethiopia. The mountain gorillas are high on Heather's list of things to see. Our friend Marissa, who introduced Heather and me way back when, is joining us for the Uganda part of the trip.
We have a short side trip to Djibouti to snorkel with the whale sharks.
Similar to our last trip, we've pre-booked most of the hotels and excursions. Ethiopia has really cheap domestic flights, available to foreign non-residents if you book your international flight with Ethiopian Airlines. We replaced a lot of 10 hour bus rides through winding mountain roads with 45 minute flights for about $40.
Unusual for this trip is the number of highlights. On most trips there's two or three highlights, and the rest of the sights are more "while you're there" types of places. On this trip they're almost all highlights.
We have a bit more planning to do and then we take off on December 9th!
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