8 Days Culture tour itinerary for ethiopia: Set Out In Search Of Tribal Omo Valley Revelries

• All meals and accommodation including hot and soft drinks plus purified bottled water. B = breakfast, L = lunch, D = dinner: as the Itinerary hotel and/or camping  

• All ground transportation by Land cruiser including fuel and driver

• Ethiopian Guide Service & Profession fee. The informative guide speaks English and tribal languages

• All entrance/community and local associations fees in each destination

• Boat trip 

• Special fees like bull jumping, market, Evangadi etc

• Scout on the Mursi Park

• Photo fee

• Others private expense, alcohol, shopping.

• The Omo Valley is a classic Ethiopian/African destination with incredible safari opportunities and many unique tribal highlights. This can be tailored to your interests. Isolated for millennia from the rest of the world, the beautiful Omo Valley is home to an exciting mix of many small and distinctive tribal groups. Amongst others, you will find the Karo, the Mursi, and the Hamer — all of whom have retained their own unique customs and traditions.

What makes the Alliance Omo Valley Guide unique?

• The guide is honest and trustworthy. The guide always respects and give priority for clients with flexibility for your trip, looking for the flexibility of planning and put together a trip that would allow to getting more of an authentic and hands-on experience.

• When looking for a trip, this is what you should be looking for:

• Someone that understands your request to have an experience that is hands-on and not on the typical tourist path

• Ability to completely customize an itinerary.  Personalized service is key

• Affordable price 

• Personal connections with certain tribes to get you inside access that most large tour companies don't have.

• Explicit about inclusions and exclusions. You want this to be as all-inclusive as possible as to not worry about additional costs along the way.

• You never worried about logistics and accommodation at all.

• Speak many languages- fluently speak the national language (Amharic) and locally spoken languages in Omo valley.

• Will make the content of the talk close to the audience's background. Translate using local language to English. Share contextual stories and interesting information: open to talk to tourists and give them interesting stories of the destination, especially those related to their traditional cultures or the natural environment by keeping it simple, clear, short and straight to the information needs.

• The guide will tell you reliable information: Getting information is simple but making sure is difficult. The guide should have to use validated sources of information to address the intended need of tourists. Do not exaggerate the story.

• Ability to present information clearly, effectively and persuasively with proven abilities to facilitate and encourage open communication to strive for effective communication;

• The guide knows more about the South Omo region than almost anyone else.

• Commitment to the community, personal connection to the tribes, and insights Ethiopia.

• Good reputation for the village: a good image of the local people and destination will be created when people together provide good services in the destination. Tourists will perceive the reputation of a village when they experience a single service as well as hospitality, safety and security in the destination as a whole.