CULTURAL ATTRACTIONS

Ethiopia is a land of beauty, a land of multi ethnics with their own cultural heritages a land on which more than 80 languages and 200 dialects are spoken. It is the only African land with its own alphabet, chronology and Calendar. 

In the north the Tigray, the Amhara and Oromo as well as the Afar people with their distinctive way of dressing, Festivals and markets and Southern Ethiopia is rich with multi nationalities culture, way of dressing, hair styles, like the Hamer, the Karo, the Mursi with their different ornaments, agricultural style like that of the terracing of Konso and marriage ceremonies, and the Harare with their colorful dresses and their housing and Markets on which you will be able to see different ethnic groups.

Visitors will be able to admire this unique culture in their villages as well as on the markets on which different ethnic groups met, weddings and their clothing is also differ from one culture to another which makes the country unique.

OMO-VALLEY AND ITS PEOPLE

It is situated following the vast Omo river, the sole feeder of East Africa’s fourth largest lake-Lake Turkana in Kenya. Its landscape is diverse that boarders the Mago and Omo rivers. The OmoValley is unique in that four of Africa’s major linguistic groups including the
‘endemic’ Omotic languages are represented within one relatively small area. To anthropologists; the Omo Valley is not far from being the proverbial
‘Living Museum’. The area is home to many diverse and fascinating peoples and cultures: the Dorze,famed for their intricately woven houses and their woven cotton cloth, the Konso,who for centuries have practiced terracing and intensive agriculture in their steep land and known for there wooden totems they erect over the graves of the dead. The lower Omo is home to an astonishing mix of small nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples. Contrasting ethnic groups, living now as humans forefather lived thousands of year back; the Hammer who are well known for their sense of elegance are the major ethnic group in the region, the Surma and Mursi women, who wear lip plates by piercing their lower lip have been compilling.There are also other tribes live in these area: the Bume,the Karo-known for their body decoration, the Geleb(Dasench),the Bodi,the Albore,the Ari,the Benna and the Tsemaye.It is the only place In Africa free of any influence of colonization, even isolated from other regions in Ethiopia. In addition, the Omo Valley is rich in human prehistory; archaeologists have unearthed the remains of earliest human being on earth. Also the area is known for the existence of large number of wild life of a great variety. There are also very untouched national park Mago and Omo.These parks are the ideal places for game viewing and birding.