5 days to Omo Valley

5 days to Omo Valley

Lower Valley Omo: Famous for its unique and fascinating tribes. Escape into Ethiopia tours will help share the real experience to these tribes. Traveling to the Omo valley will give you a chance to encounter an evidently different from your own. The trip this impressive tribes such as Mursi, Karo, Hamer, and Dasenche tribes waiting to get you inside their culture and traditions, watching Hamer Young man performing a jumping of the Bulls ceremony, seeing Mursi’s mind-blowing lip-plating and karo tribe some excelling specifically in body and face painting. Your trip to the Omo Valley will stick with you for lifetime.

Itinerary

Day 1: Fly from Addis Ababa to Arbaminch

Stop At: Arbaminch, Arba Minch, Ethiopia
On this day: fly from Addis Ababa to Arbaminch; you will arrive in Arbaminch airport and you drive to the hotel for check-in. have a lunch in the hotel, after lunch Ascend into the Gughe Mountains to visit the Dorze people, who are known for their tall beehive-like houses and their fine cotton weaving.
After, drive back to Arba Minch for overnight in ArbaMinch

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Paradise lodge or similar

Day 2: Drive from Arbaminch to Jinka

Stop At: Konso Cultural Centre, On the road with Stawberry Fields Eco-Lodge, Konso Ethiopia
On this day in the morning, take a boat trip on Lake Chamo to visit the crocodile market and hippo pods after the boat trip, continue driving to Jinka via Konso. Stop in Konso for a visit with the Konso people, who are known for their totems erected in honor of the dead and their intricate agricultural terracing techniques. Afterwards, continue to Jinka.
Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Jinka resort or similar

Day 3: Visit Mursi Tribe

Stop At: Jinka Market, Jinka, Ethiopia
After breakfast drive to Mago National Park to visit the Mursi tribe, who are known for their lower lip- plates. Afterwards, return to Jinka and drive to Ari. This Ari people are well-known with their hard working. You will discover their unique lifestyle. The Ari tribes are famous with their traditional house and agriculture.
After short visit of Ari drive to Turmi: to the homes of Hammer tribes. The Hammer tribes are well-known with their traditional night dancing of Evangadi, and jumping of the Bulls traditional-wedding ceremony. It will be visited the same day if there is one.

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at Buska lodge or similar


Day 4: Omorate,and Karo

Stop At: Dasenech Village, Omorate Dasenech, Turmi 1000 Ethiopia
On this day in the morning after breakfast, Drive to Omorate and cross the Omo River by local boat to visit the Dasennech tribe (also known as Galeb tribe). Return to Turmi for lunch and have lunch. Afterwards continue drive to Karo tribe. Karo tribes are the smallest group in Omo Valley. This people are living along the east banks of the Omo River.
The Karo people differentiate themselves from many of the neighboring tribes by excelling specifically in body and face painting. Drive back from Karo to Turmi, and Visit the Hammer tribes. You will experrince how the people lives, in an arrangements of area that consist of several related families. The families live in a circle with their cattle. After having plaent time with the Hamar tribes back to the Hotel.

Duration: 8 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at Buska lodge or similar

Day 5: Fly from Jinka to Addis Ababa

Stop At: Omo Valley Tribes gate, Jinka, Ethiopia
On this day drive from Turmi to Jank to catch the flight to Addis Ababa. En route you will visit local market in Dimeka: after visiting the market, continue to drive to Jinka Airports. In the Afternoon you will arrive in Addis Ababa airport and drive to Merkato, Africa’s largest market of its kind, and do shopping. Finally, you will take Ethiopian coffee at TOMOCA coffee shop. After the coffee place/farewell party, with cultural foods and drinks meanwhile you will see traditional live music.

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Duration: 8 minutes

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.