Ethiopia Safaris

7 Days omo Valley Tribal Safari

Day 1: Arba Minch

Our driver guide will pick you early morning and drive Southward of Addis for Arba Minch (505km). En-route you will visit the series Rift Valley lakes that are teemed with different bird species. Dinner and Overnight at hotel.
Day 2: Jinka

Drive to Jinka (256km) enjoying the Omo Valley tribal people of Gatto, Darashe, and Konso  whose known for Terracing and hard working , and also visit Tsamay, Banna  that preserve their traditional ways of life hardly changed from what they were centuries ago. Dinner and Overnight Jinka Resort.
Day 3: Jinka- Mursi -Jinka

Morning drive to Mago National Park through natural forest and undulating terrain to visit the Mursi tribe whose women wear circular clay plate on their lower lip as well ear lobes the men are known for the fierce stick fighting. Afternoon visit Jinka townfs daily market and Ethnographic Museum that gives a good overview of the Omo Valley people culture and way of life. . Dinner and Overnight Jinka Resort.

Day 4: Turmi

Drives to Turmi en-route visiting Ari and Banna tribes arrive have lunch; fix our camp and rest till the sun get cool. Late afternoon walk to the villages of the Hammer people that enjoy body decoration and wear quantities of colorful beads and clay hair buns with Ostrich feathers spend pleasant after noon with friendly Hamar people walk back to the camp before dark. Dinner and Overnight camping.
Day 5: Omorate -Turmi- Karo-Turmi

Morning  after breakfast drive  to Omorate the  village of Dassanech tribe living on both side  Omo River here we take Canoe to cross the Omo river and visit the Village of Dassanech drive back to Turmi.
Afternoon drive to Koricho (the beautifully settled village on the side of Omo River) village of Karo people who are considered the masters of body painting and decorate their bodies with chalk paint often imitating the spotted plumage of a guinea fowl and drive back to Turmi. Dinner and Overnight camping at Turmi.
Day 6: Turmi-Arba Minch

After breakfast we drive Arba Minch on the way, you will have a stop at Arbore. The Arbores are settled parallel to Lake Stephanie and at the Northern edge of Buska Mountain chain that extends 96Kms in the Weyto Plains of the Omo Valley. Short break at Weyto for proceed to Arba Minch. Dinner and Overnight Paradise Lodge

Day 7: Morning drive to Chencha village to visit the Dorze people, renowned cotton weavers as well construction of tall beehive-shaped dwellings or like Elephant shape Enjoy the false banana bread with hot spice. And then proceed driving to Addis Ababa  via Hosanna and Butajira towns this day will give chance to drive on the edge of the great east Africa rift valley where you can enjoy the superb  green and fertile valley and the way meet the friendly countryside people arrive Addis late afternoon . Overnight at hotel of your choice or take a flight back home.