Located at about 400km southeast of Addis Ababa, 215,000ha Bale Mountains National Park protects ecosystems from the park’s highest peak, Mount Tulu Dimtu at 4,377 masl – being Ethiopia’s third highest point: after the two highest peaks in Simien Mountains National Park – down to the montane forests at about 1500masl. The park has one of the highest numbers of endemic animal species in the world.