Omo Valley Tours: with Local Tour Guide

Experience 0 century living time. Explore deep to the variety of omo valley tribes. Discover Mursi,Karo,Dasenech,Hamar,Dorze and crocodile,paradise birds and Hippos on heart of Rift valley Lake chamo
Day1: we will pick up you from the airport then drive to Dorze which lies 2500m above sea level, to visit Dorze village. The dorze tribe is known for their traditional weaving skills and they arw registered on UNESCO by their traditional way of living and their celebration of meskel festival. You will see and get the chance to taste their traditional local common food cocho! They make it from the false banana plants(insaet) which looks the same like a Banana plant but it doesnt give fruits and it only grows in Ethiopia. You will be able to see and enter their amazing and famous house! Its made from bamboo and has the shape of an elephant, to honour the elephants that once lived in the area!
They live surrounded by the most amazing land scape! ON Arbaminch

Day-2
After breakfast from we will drive from Arba Minch to Konso to visit the konso tribe and their village. We will admire the gorgeous land scapes enroute, which are also registered on UNESCO by making land terraces..... Then after visit konso drive to Turmi to visit Hamar village! On the way may be we will attend the special and colour full market of Hamer tribe,banna tribe,Ari tribe,tsemay tribe (this depends on the day you will travel, because this market is only twice a week) If there is a bulljumping ceremony, I will make sure you will see the bulljumping ceremony! ON Turmi in Hamer village Emerald Lodge!

Day3
After breakfast, we will make an excursion to Omo rate which is found East of the Omo River, we cross Omo River by the traditional dassanech local boats made from big fig tree and walk 20 minute to the Dassanech tribal village.
Dassench people are also known for their body painting and body scarification. Then after lunch in Turmi visit the Hamar,Karo, dassench tribe market day.

On any of the above afternoons we might be attending Hamar bulljumping ceremony(age rite) depending when and where it is happening. ON Turmi Emerald lodge

Day4,
After breakfast, we will make an excursion to visit the Karo, another Omo Valley tribe that settled on the shores of the Omo River. The Karoos are agro-pastoralists and considered to be the master of body painters. ON The Way Back Vist Children Walking oN The Stick overnight in jinka.

Day5,
Early morning from jinka we will drive to Mago national Park with an excursion to a Mursi village (approx 66km from Jinka).They live in the mago national park. You will be able to meet the Mursi. They are renowned for wearing large lip plates!! and ear lobe plates. Mursi men drink blood more than eating meat,because they dont need to kill their cow to harvest the blood. They take blood from the cow, by making a hole in the vane with a small arrow, then they stop the blood from running with their traditional medicine! The cows wound heals very fast! You will see when mursi man take his breakfast from his own cow. Maybe if there is a donga fight, you will see the stick fighting (donga fight) in Mursi! After visiting the mursi we return to Jinka airport.

To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.

Cancellation is not possible. If you cancel it anyway or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity and the money you paid will not be refunded.