Awash national park is the oldest and most developed wildlife reserve in Ethiopia. Featuring the 1,800-metre Volcano, extensive mineral hot-springs and extraordinary volcanic formations, this natural treasure is bordered to the south by the Awash river.
The wildlife consists mainly of East African plains animals, but giraffe and buffalo are endanger. Whereas, Oryx, bat-eared fox, caracal, aardvark, colobus and green monkeys, Anubis and Hamadryas baboons, klipspringer, leopard, bushbuck, hippopotamus, Soemmering’s gazelle, cheetah, lion, kudu and 450 species of bird all live within the park’s 720 square kilometers.