Sodere Resort
- Location
- Nazret, Ethiopia
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 35 °C
- pH
- 7
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Sodere Resort, located near Nazret (Adama) in Ethiopia's Oromia Region on the Awash River, is Ethiopia's most famous and beloved thermal resort — a chloride-rich hot spring complex that has served as the country's premier leisure destination for Addis Ababa residents since the imperial era. The resort's warm, naturally mineralised pools are set in a lush riverine garden on the Awash River banks, where troops of baboons and diverse birdlife share the landscape with bathers in a uniquely Ethiopian combination of nature and leisure. Sodere has hosted Ethiopian heads of state, foreign dignitaries, and generations of Ethiopian families seeking respite from the altitude and stress of Addis Ababa, and its cultural significance as Ethiopia's national thermal resort is matched by the genuine geological quality of its volcanic spring waters.