Visit Oromia

Visit Oromia where the sheer diversity of the culture, people and landscape is sure to leave you astounded. Oromia's lush green rain forests in the west, its plains in the central highlands, the great rift valley and the massive mountain ranges to the east and south, are home to forests of wild coffee, crater lakes on top of mountains, ancient afro-alpine jungles, and freshwater, alkaline, and salty lakes teeming with more than 800 species of birds. Oromia is also home to mighty rivers like the Awash, Baro, and Wabi-Shebelle, and high plains you can drive to and camp at and where you can see endemic species like the Red Fox, the magnificent Black Maned Lion, and the Mountain Nyala. Oromia's southern plains and its northern rift valley are home to the Borana and Karrayyu people whose practice of the indigenous democratic system Gadaa predates any state in the land and is still intact today. But the story of Oromia goes even deeper, and we invite you to delight in the discovery of what this ancient land and people have in store.