Lake Chamo

South Ethiopia Regional State · Ethiopia

Lake Chamo, Ethiopia
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
October to March
Budget
$
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A Rift Valley lake near Arba Minch famous for hosting some of Africa's largest Nile crocodiles, which gather on a sandbank dubbed the crocodile market. Boat trips also pass pods of hippos and fishermen working from high-prowed wooden boats. Hornbills and fish eagles patrol a shoreline backed by the Guge mountains.

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