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We seek the beauty of landscape and seascape, the heritage of cultural diversity and the bustle of street and marketplaces. Effectively, photography through geography.
You will take the morning flight to Jinka (a get way to Omo Valley ) after lunch in Jinka proceed further down to Turmi to visit the Hamar Village and on the way will visit the Bana boy stick walking.
The Hamers are a fine looking people, both men and women take great pride in their appearance, shaving and coloring their hair, oiling their bodies and decorating themselves with beads and bracelets worn around arms and legs. So the rest of the afternoon will be spent at the village meeting amazing people. The kids in the village are sweet and amazing. Nothing would make the village beautiful than seeing these kids through African sunset .
Overnight Emerland Lodge
Morning after breakfast we will drive from Turmi to Kara.
The Kara/Karo are the one who took the list populations of the area numbering 3,000 people, and settled alongside the majestic Omo River which is a primary source of live for Omo Valley people and flows down to south to Kenyan Lake called Turkana.And, this the Kara people are consider to be as a master of body painting .Then, you will be arriving to one their furthest village called Kolcho which has an excellent view over the Omo River. Then you will be spending the couple of hours visiting the Korcho village.
Afterward we will continue drive to Nyangatom in order to visit the Nyangatom/Bume tribe settled right at the other side of the Omo river at the border of the Ethiopian, Kenyan and South Sudan. Just like most of the indigenous group in Omo Valley, the Nyangatom have their own identity. Both sexes wear melti colored necklace, and also body scarifications practice both by men as heroism for killing his enemy or wild animals, women for beautifying purpose. Then you will be spending the couple of hours visiting the village.
Afterward, you will drive back to Jinka.
Overnight Jinka Resorts
Early Morning after breakfast, we will drive to the Mursi tribes which is 60kms away from Jinka. Through the Mago national park and the Mursi tribes are known as the most amazing tribes of all, best known for the lip plates worn by the women. The custom is that when a Mursi woman reaches the age of about 20, a slit is cut beneath her lower lip, creating a small hole between the lip and the tissue below. Over the next year, this gap is progressively stretched, forming a ‘lip loop’ large enough for a small circular clay plate, indented like a pulley, to be inserted between the lip and the mouth.
We will spent some times in their village, and we going to drive around Mago National Park and we may see some wildlife.
After visiting this tribe then you will drive back to Jinka and fly to Addis Ababa.
Afterwards , we will have a farewell dinner at one of the finest restaurant called Yod Abyssinia . Then transfer you back to Addis Abeba international airport where you would take flight back to home.
End of the tour.
We seek the beauty of landscape and seascape, the heritage of cultural diversity, and the bustle of streets and marketplaces. Effectively, photography through geography.
Jinka,Ethiopia
+251 96 857 4834
info@ethiopiantribalexpeditions.com
