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    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 21

      Kara

      November 6, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

      The Kara tribe is the last of the South Omo Valley tribes I'm visiting. They are about the smallest of the tribes in the region, living along the banks of the Omo River. The name, Kara refers to fish, and some of their diet is just that. However, they are agro pastoralists like most of the other tribes.
      They are perhaps best known for their body painting.
      The 1st picture looks at a a painted man pointing out the Omo River. The rest of the pictures are various members of the tribe showing the variety of body decoration practiced here. The last picture is a woman working at a traditional grinding stone. She is grinding wheat.      Read more

    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 20

      Daasenach

      November 5, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

      The Daasenach are another of the tribes in the South Omo Valley. The village I visited close to the border with Kenya and near the town of Omorate, the administrative center of the Daasenach region. To reach the village, I crossed the Omo River on a traditional canoe that you can see in the 1st picture.
      The 2nd picture looks at the village. The next 2 pictures are of Daasenach women. Notice the hairstyles. The 3rd picture is an unmarried woman, while the 4th is married. If you look closely at the married woman, you might be able to see small braids on top of her head. She has a braid for each child. This woman has 3. It was said that the Daasenach still practice female circumcision.
      The 5th picture is a look inside one of their dwellings. The 6th picture is a look across one of their fields that is waiting for the next planting season.
      The last picture is a baboon that just wanted to be photographed.      Read more

    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 19

      Bana family

      November 4, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

      The Bana are another of the Omo Valley tribes. The people live as individual families spread out rather than in gathered communities. In the 2nd picture, you can see a couple of these among the fields. I'll come back to the 1st picture.
      The next 4 pictures are inside the family's house. The 3rd and 4th pictures look at the house. You can see the structure. They sit and sleep on goat skin mats that are better seen in the 5th picture. Immediately behind the center post is the small kitchen. In the 5th picture our host is making coffee husk tea. That's really a thing. They take the husks remaining after being removed from the bean, chop it up and throw them into hot water to steep. It tastes more like tea than coffee. In the 6th picture you can see the gourds that are used as tea cups. Our host's husband is about to pass that gourd to me, which is that 1st picture. I was surprised that the coffee taste was minimal.
      The last picture looks across the family compound to the view.      Read more

    • TravelerÄthiopien 2024
      Day 9

      Day 9: Arsi Negele to Hawassa

      April 4 in Ethiopia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

      Heute hiess es alle Sinnesorgane zu schärfen, da es viel Verkehr hatte und es gab Slalom zwischen Kühen, Esel, Hühner, Lastwagen, Autos, und Tuktuks. Deswegen gab es sehr wenige Fotos 😀. Es ist und bleibt abenteuerlich, unser Guide konnte einer "Geiss"🐐 nicht ausweichen und kam zu Fall. Janine hatte Platten Nr. 3. Wie immer sind wir ein Highlight und werden umzingelt sobald wir stoppen. Beim Plattenflicken hatten wir bis zu 50 Zuschauer 🤣🤣.
      Wir sind in Hawassa eingetroffen und Janine ist auf der Suche nach einem neuen Reifen und ich habe Zeit zum posten 🙂. Heute Nachmittag geht es noch aufs Boot wo wir Nilpferde besichtigen können. Ein Update folgt.      Read more

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    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 19

      Bull jumping

      November 4, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      Bull jumping is practiced by the Hamer tribe (see another post). It is a right of passage for boys to be recognized as adults. Only after successfully completing this ritual will they be allowed to marry.
      This is a whole community event that lasts a couple of days with lots of drinking and feasting provided by the family of the jumper. All the women of the village gather to sing and dance. The 1st picture shows this, but please see another post with a video of the singing and dancing. After a while, certain of the young men who have passed the ritual show up with sticks to whip the women who work hard to receive the lash. The 2nd picture captures this, and the 3rd picture shows that this isn't just a trivial ceremony. I'm told this is to show the boy who is jumping how much he is loved. The closer the relationship to the jumper, the more extensive the whipping.
      While all this is going on, the boy who will jump arrives. He is the boy with the goat skin garment in the 4th picture. He is to Ng for this ceremony. It seems there are many reasons why he might be jumping so early.
      After the whipping those same young men have their faces painted as in the 5th picture
      While all that is going on, there is a lot of drinking and talking among the family and the elders to finalize the ok for the ceremony to take place.
      As the time approaches, the women who have been continuing to sing and dance move to the bulls and sing around them. See the 6th picture.
      The ceremony takes place near dusk. As the bulls are encircled by the watchers, the boy who is jumping goes among the bulls and selects the ones he will jump. That's the 7th picture. The bulls are lined up for the jumping as in the 8th picture.
      Finally the main event. In the last 2 pictures, the boy is completing the ritual. There is another short post with a video of a bit of his effort.
      And, yes, this is always done in the nude.      Read more

    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 20

      Hamer

      November 5, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      Yet another of the tribes of the South Omo Valley, the Hamer are largely pastoralists who value cattle highly. They are one of the larger tribes in the region.
      They are especially well known for their custom of bull jumping (see other posts).
      The 1st picture looks at the entrance to the village of about 850 people while the 2nd looks at a family cluster of houses. The Hammer spread out the clusters so that each family unit has space for housing and for keeping livestock at night. The goats and cattle are out seeking forage and water during the day. The 3rd picture is inside a typical Hamer home.
      The 4th picture is of elder women while the 5th picture is of young unmarried women. I'm told marriage age is about 15 for women and 22 for men. The 6th picture is a newlywed in the house where she remains for a period. Her head is shaved so she grows new hair with her husband. Her body has been painted with local ochre.
      The 7th picture is of some really young goats who were noisily calling to the goats in the 8th picture as they return from grazing during the day.
      The last picture is a man making rope      Read more

    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 20

      Dimeka

      November 5, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      Dimeka is the administrative center for the Hamer region. It is also a market town with a good size market, especially the livestock market.
      The 1st 3 picture are in the livestock market. This is the section dealing in goats. The cattle market is nearby. The 1st picture looks across the open area where business is done. Goats are sold by the kilogram. In the 2nd picture a young goat is being weighed. The 3rd picture is a goat shipment. It could be either arriving for sale or sending out purchased goats.
      The 4th picture is a group of women sitting in the shade. They are likely eating, drinking, talking and bartering. The 5th picture is a pot of natural honey directly from the hive. The last picture is typical of the rest of the market.
      Aside from the livestock market, the rest of the market doesn't look busy. I'm told that is because a large portion of the people are at the livestock market. Once that market finishes, the rest will be busy.      Read more

    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 18

      Mursi village

      November 3, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

      The Mursi are a small tribe (fewer than 20,000 individuals) of the Omo Valley not far from the border with South Sudan. They are agro-pastoralists and historically nomadic. Their most important possession is their cattle. They also cultivate crops that can be harvested in the time between moves for pasturage and water for the cattle.
      Their houses are made entirely of bamboo as seen in the 1st picture which shows a look the the village. Each small village is a single clan. The 2nd picture showed the detached door in place. The entry is less than a meter tall. This is said to be below the height where most mosquitoes fly, making it less likely that they will enter the house. The interior is shown in the 3rd picture.
      The 4th picture is a young man with many decorative scars that you can see by enlarging the picture.
      The 5th picture is a grinding stone. The 6th picture is half ground sorghum. They grind it once; dry it; and grind it again.
      The last picture is a longer view of the village. Every time a son marrys, the woman joins the man's village. So the clan grows.      Read more

    • skip's retirement travelEthiopia
      Day 17

      Ari village

      November 2, 2022 in Ethiopia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

      The Ari people are another tribal group native to the Omo Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Ari are thought to be the largest and oldest tribe in the Omo region. They are well known agriculturalists, providing much of the food for the region. They also have skilled potters and blacksmiths.
      The 1st picture is a look at a family compound of the 2nd wife of the village blacksmith. The 2nd picture is the blacksmith at work at his forge with a few of his products laid out. The 3rd picture is the potter shaping a baking plate for injera baking and other cooking uses. The 4th picture is the working still making the homemade liquor. The 5th picture is one of the many fields. Growing here are sorghum, corn (maize), beans and more. The last picture is again making injera. This time the batter is made from corn instead of tef as in this region, tef is much more expensive and so used only at celebrations, holidays, etc.      Read more

    • TravelerWildes Afrika
      Day 19

      "RESERVED FOR ULIRICH"

      December 28, 2019 in Ethiopia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      Unsere Reise durch den faszinierenden Süden Äthiopiens nähert sich dem Ende. Nach einer kalten Nacht ohne Strom und in Kleidung und Decken gekuschelt, genießen wir ein letztes Mal den grandiosen Blick aus knapp 3000 m Höhe auf den äthiopischen Dschungel. Auch ohne Fotos brennen sich diese atemberaubenden Bilder in die Reiseerinnerungsmatrix unseres Hirns. Na ja, trotzdem fotografieren wir wie irre ;-) Eine letzte Fahrt über holprige afrikanische Pisten und wir erreichen Arba Minch. Zurück im Haile Resort werden wir gefühlt vom gesamte Hotelmanagement begrüßt. Mesfin berichtet direkt nach Ankunft an der Rezeption von unserem 3 tägigem Magengrummeln nach unserem letzten Aufenthalt hier in diesem Haus. Unser Zimmertelefon klingelt nach dieser Information gefühlt 10 mal und wir werden eindringlich gebeten, das vorzügliche Essen doch unbedingt ein zweites Mal zu probieren, „durchfällige″ Gefahr sei zu 100 Prozent ausgeschlossen. Uli wird vom Hotelmanager in der Lobby eingefangen und mit der wiederholten Bitte um Rehabilitation nahezu gedrängt. Ein großzügiger Tisch mit bestem Blick aufs Tal wird reserviert – „RESERVED FOR ULIRICH″. Wir verweigern uns keiner Rehabilitation, unser Hunger hält sich aber in Grenzen und – ein paar kleine Bedenken halten sich hartnäckig.
      Bei einem letzten Lunch hier in Arba Minch verabschieden wir uns von unserem 10 tägigem Reisebegleiter und Fahrer Mesfin. Die Bedenken, meine Urlaubstage über so lange Zeit mit einem fremden Menschen zu teilen, waren gänzlich unbegründet. Viele nette, entspannte Gespräche, selbstverständlichen Raum für Sprachlosigkeit, gute Orts - und Menschenkenntnis und die Hürde aller Hürden, zumindest für Uli, ein guter Fahrer auch auf unwegigsten Straßen, war uns Mesfin keine Minute eine Last, sondern auf dieser Reise eine ausgesprochen angenehme Gesellschaft. Sollten wir dieses Land noch einmal besuchen, steht Mesfin aus Addis Abeba definitiv als Freund auf der Reiseliste.      Read more

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    Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, SNNPR, YeDebub Bihēroch Bihēreseboch na Hizboch Kilil

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