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I think a little context is in order to explain why Christi and I are so excited by the prospect of exploring the remote south-west of Ethiopia beyond Arba Minch and down to the Omo valley. First and foremost the reason we are going is because we … [Continue reading]
Today Christi and I will start visiting some of the incredibly diverse ethnic groupings that call southwest Ethiopia home. In fact, it is only within the last few decades that some of these tribes realized they lived in a country called Ethiopia. For … [Continue reading]
I suppose the accompanying image renders any attempt at a suspenseful blog moot. So instead I'll shout it loud and clear from the roof tops that Christi and I (with a little help from our marvellous driver-guide Fekade) made it one of the Mursi … [Continue reading]
Jinka is a market town in the Lower Omo Valley with a population of some 22,000 - a number that swells during the weekly market as folks from the different tribes head into town from the remote villages in the area. There are no public buses and … [Continue reading]
The Lower Omo Valley is virtually unique not only in Africa, but in the world in that so many different peoples inhabit a tiny (and remote) area and we continue to meet new tribal groupings each day. Today it's the Ari and the Banna. Indeed, it is … [Continue reading]
It's a 2.5 hour drive from Turmi to the Karo village of Korcho through an idyllic slice of untouched rural Africa. There are no power lines, communication towers, or any other suggestion of the modern world. There is nothing taller in fact than an … [Continue reading]
Christi and I are in the epicenter of Hamer territory and the weekly markets in Turmi and Dimeka offer excellent opportunities to meet them. And not 5 minutes from our lodge on the outskirts of Turmi is the Hamer village of Gambala. Over a two-day … [Continue reading]
After an uncomfortable night of vomiting and diarrhea, Christi starts a course of ciprofloxacin today (and for those of you keeping count we have both had two courses of ciprofloxacin now - and all since we have been in Africa). The Dark Continent is … [Continue reading]
Today is the last day of our mammoth cultural safari of Southern Ethiopia and the Lower Omo Valley. And although we have visited several ethnic groupings there are many more we did not see. It would probably take weeks to meet all the peoples of this … [Continue reading]
If I haven't already communicated this fact sufficiently well, I'm going to use this post to highlight the point further. Ethiopia is just an amazing country to visit, particularly for its cultural diversity. The north is dominated by the Amhara … [Continue reading]
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