TTT-012 RIFT VALLEY AND TURMI

Day 1. Arrive Addis Ababa and city tour. Visit Entoto Mountains, with very nice view over the capital, and church of St. Mary with adjacent museum of imperial objects. Then back to the city, for the National museum. O/N hotel.

Day 2. Drive to Arbaminch, with some stops for Wolayta people and houses on the way. Very interesting their houses, way of life, cultivation of the false banana (from which they extract their local bread, called Kotcho) and more. O/N Arbaminch Swaynes Hotel 3*.

Day 3. AM drive to the mountains of Chencha to visit the houses, works of weavings (for which they are extremely famous), cultivations (Sorgun or false banana) of Dorze people. PM boat trip on Chamo Lake, for hippos and crocodiles with length reaches 06 meters. Meals & O/N Arbaminch. Use the natural path from Swayne’s hotel to the springs. Very interesting.

Day 4. Drive to Jinka, admiring on the way the interesting Konso, Derase, Ari, Benna and Tsemay people, very famous for hairstyles, their unique culture and traditions, as the ornaments all over their body. Konso people famous for their terracing agricultural works and villages traditions. O/N camp or local hotel Jinka town.

Day 5. Admire Mursi people and villages. Here for beauty women inserts to a round clay plates in to their lips. Men different scarification based on number of enemies or wild animals killed in battle and many other cultures. O/N Mago park camping

Day 6. Cross the Karo people region and visit their village of Kortcho, with beautiful views over the Omo River. Karo people are famous for their extravagant hairstyle in men and for the different ornaments and painting all over their body all men, women and children. Continue for the beautiful Hammer people region & O/N Turmi at the Evangadi campsite & lodge (camp or fixed tents.

Day 7. Full day Turmi, the region of the very nice Hammer people, with unique hairstyles, different cultural traits, ornamental traditions and more. Visit some very interesting villages and folk dances. If by chance it happen, you will see the Hammar marriage ceremony with unique celebrations, such as the bull jumping by men and many others. If necessary, in the morning can be done an excursion at Omorate, around the bank of Omo River, for Dassanech tribes & villages too. O/N Turmi camp or fixed tents.

Day 8. Drive toward Konso & visit the Konso villages and very interesting cultures. O/N htl in Arbaminch.

Day 9. AM Netch Sar Park. PM drive to Langano Lake. O/N htl.

Day 10. Rift valley lakes of Shalla & Abyata back AA O/N htl.

Day 11. Departure.

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