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Arba Mich
The name of the town, Derived from the estimated number of the holes through
which the cold water emitted from the foot of the escarpment nearer the
Town Arbaminch (forty springs) flowing from ground water forest. Arbaminch
is 510 km South of Addis Ababa. It has two small towns; the one located
on the top & the other on the flat land called Secha and Sikela. From
Secha you can easily view the town’s main tourist attraction both
lakes of Chamo & Abaya, The necha Sar National park plain as well
as the mountain which divides both lakes called the Bridge of God.
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Located on The Eastern Edge of Arbaminch town lies within the floor of the Great Rift Valley and extends from 5 degree 51’ N to 6 degree 50’N and 37 degree 32’ E to 37 degree 48’ E with an elvation varying between 1108-1650 meters above sea level. Currently the park is running by African Parks Conservation (APS). If you want to know about APS click on it. The wild lives you can visit in Nech Sar National Park are: -Swayne’s hartebeest, Burechelles Zebra, Grants gazelle, Secretary bird, Kory bastard, Abyssinian ground hornbill and ofcourse Zebras (widely seen in a group on the grassy plain).
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Lake
Chamo & Abaya,
The lakes and the Lakeshores are an interesting component of the great
Biodiversity of the Lake ecosystem. In Lake Chamo, many huge Nile Crocodiles
inhabit. Their concentration on the lakeshore on the sandy or Grassy area
commonly called Crocodile Market where you can find from the smaller Croc
to the huge and 5 meter long ones, abundant fishes including the Nile
Perch, Hippos and water related birds such as Pelicans, Lesser Flamingos,
Fish Eagle and other water related birds. Lake
Abaya, apart from its being a place for the Crocs it is a nice place for
motor sporting, sport fishing and to have closer view point.
The
Forty Springs and the ground water forest,
The main water resource of the ground forest and the town flows in the
middle of the dense forest nearby by the parks head quarter. As estimated,
the ground hole reaches 40.
Bridge
of God
The center of the park between the 2 lakes Abaya and Chamo is a flat surface
4.2 km apart with an elevation of 61m.
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Chench
& Dorze
Chencha is a town mainly for the Dorze tribal people which is 45 km north
of Arbaminch on the top of the Dorze mountain. Chench and Dorze are among
the highland plateau of the Southern Ethiopia located on the elevation
more than 2750m above sea level. Dorze
the southern tribal people known by their cotton weaving and hut are considered
to be one of the hardworking people of the region. Dorze Hut, look like
an Elephant head is a twelve meter high tikul made up of bamboo tree and
false banana leaf. The length of the ‘tikul’ may decrease
from year to year due to the termites. Once if termites eat the bottom
of the ‘tikul’, the owner of the Dorze hut may dig the ground
again and put it back once again.