Yama Ethiopia Tours

Who we are

Yama Ethiopia Tours is founded by an Ethio-Japanse Firm currently based in Ethiopia under the management of Ato Tariku W/Aregay. it is also well organized with professional highly rated and multilingual ( English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese) guides, excellent drivers and cooks specialized in western dishes and well equipped with camping gears provide outstanding service to its esteemed client.

Yama Ethiopia Tours is also uniquely different from other tour operators in Ethiopia for being specialized in organizing group and individual weekly and monthly short safari and ecological tours including bird watching to the nearest National Parks like Awash National Park, Semien Mountain National Park, Senkele Sanctuary, Babille Elephant Sanctuary and Wenchi creator lakes with highly qualified tours guides and wildlife experts.

Our high level collaborations and agreements with various hotels throughout the country will enable you a comfortable and affordable stay at any hotel of your choice. With our fleet of modern vehicles suitable for Ethiopian terrain and tour guides and drivers who have traveled extensively throughout the country, your tour will be absolutely comfortable.

About the founders

Tariku W/Aregay was born and grew up in the eastern part of Ethiopia: Awash National Park, where his father used to work. Tariku did his primary and high school study in Awash and moved to Addis for College. He studied Tour Operation, Guiding and Tourism Management at one of the prestigious tourism management training institutes in the country.
He started working as a local guide in the National Park when he was 15 years old during the weekend and summer time when school closed. He spent most of his life with American researchers in the Park, who are working on wild life research. He has great foreign life experiences and has traveled to many countries for experience sharing.
He mostly travels with his groups during visits to different parts of the country to ensure his clients' maximum comfort and share his professional experiences to his groups. He has won a lot of positive comments from the groups he traveled with. Tariku is also very well known at all tourist destinations in Ethiopia as a very sociable person.