Ethiopia 2024

Within the low-lying plains of southwestern Ethiopia, an extraordinary region can be found. Home to some of the oldest cultures in Africa, life here is a very different experience for the outside visitor. Head south past the Rift Valley lakes where the landscapes transform into a dusty savannah environment as you arrive in the tribal heartlands beyond Arba Minch and Jinka.
Suri Tribe In the Omo Valley, you meet diverse tribal communities that have lived here for countless generations.
Suri Tribe
Karo Tribe Ethiopia! What an experience. I went there twice in a very short time.
Karo Tribe
Suri Tribe The Suri are an agro-pastoral people and inhabit part of the West Omo zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia as...
Suri Tribe
Suri Tribe There are some 34,000 Suri in the Southwest of Ethiopia.
Suri Tribe
Karo Tribe the Karo have extraordinary body and face painting rituals where they use colored ochre, white chalk, yellow mineral rock and other natural resources to paint...
Karo Tribe
Suri Tribe Young Suri women posing with the author, Upper Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Suri Tribe
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Omo Valley Making a stop along the way to the Suri tribe, I was overwhelmed by the local kids.
Omo Valley
Suri Tribe The Suri have a traditional belief system with a supreme sky deity called Tumu.
Suri Tribe
Suri Tribe The Suri have lived in the Ethio-Sudan border area for many generations
Suri Tribe
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Omo Valley
Omo Valley
Karo Tribe The Karo Tribe is one of many that make Africa a beautiful, diverse and culturally mesmerizing continent.
Karo Tribe
Suri Tribe The Suri are a very interesting and tough people, who have had their share of problems with neighbouring peoples, like the Nyangatom, who are closer to the...
Suri Tribe
Dassanech
Dassanech
Dassanech After my visit back in 2017, it was the second time that I came here in Ormorate.
Dassanech
Dassanech Watcha, my guide is showing images on my tablet which I took 8 years ago when I came here. A girl recognized a young lady who passed away recently due to...
Dassanech
Mursi Tribe Lip plates are circular clay or wood discs that are put into a lower lip incision. The distinctive stretched lip appearance is achieved by gradually expanding...
Mursi Tribe