6-Day Ethiopia Tribal and Cultural Tour through the Lower Omo Valley

• You will be met upon arrival and transferred to your hotel. Refresh before beginning your sightseeing tour of Addis Ababa with a drive up Mount Entoto for a panoramic view of the city.
• Descend and continue to the National Museum, where you will have a chance to see the famous "Lucy" fossil, one of the oldest hominids ever discovered.
• Visit the Holy Trinity Cathedral, built during World War II.
• Then proceed to the Ethnographic Museum, which used to be the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie. To wrap up the day, drive to Merkato, the biggest market in East Africa. Overnight in Addis.

• After an early breakfast, drive to the southern part of Ethiopia. On the way, visit Tiya, classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, where you can see the northernmost example of a peculiar type of engraved standing stelae found across parts of southern Ethiopia.
• Continue driving to the town of Welayta for a lunch stop. After lunch, proceed to Arba Minch for your overnight stay.

Overnight in Arba Minch.

• After breakfast, take a boat trip on Lake Chamo to visit the crocodile market. This is the local name for a place on the lake where crocodiles come out of the water and rest - there is no buying or selling. You will also see hippos and different kinds of birds before later driving to the Dorze village.
• The Dorze people live high up in the Gughe Mountains, where you will see their traditional beehive-shaped huts, recognized by UNESCO as some of the most visually attractive traditional structures. Later, return to Arba Minch for lunch, then drive to the town of Konso.

Overnight in Konso.

• After breakfast, you will have a chance to see the Konso village, one of the UNESCO sites in Ethiopia, known for its terracing.
• One of the country's best types of coffee also comes from this village.
• Proceed to the Bana village. The Bana are indigenous pastoral and semi-nomadic people living in the harsh environment of the Lower Omo Valley.
• The men often dress their hair with a colorful clay cap decorated with feathers. Then continue to Turmi, where the Hamer people live. Overnight in Turmi.

• After breakfast, take an excursion to Omorate to visit the Dassanech people, the "people of the Delta," who live on the northern shore of Lake Turkana.
• After the visit, drive back to Turmi for lunch, then continue to Jinka. Overnight in Jinka.

• Take a day excursion to Mago National Park to visit the Mursi village.
• The Mursi are one of the exotic ethnic groups in Ethiopia. They live in very low huts made of straw leaves, and the women like to wear terra-cotta plates in their enormously stretched lower lips and earlobes. Drive back to Jinka for lunch.
• Continue to the Ari people, the largest population in the Lower Omo Valley. The women wear skirts made from a banana-like tree called Enset and are experts in pottery. Later, you will be transferred to Jinka Airport for your flight to Addis Ababa.
• In the evening, attend a folkloric dinner where you will have a chance to taste several national dishes and watch dances from the various ethnic groups of Ethiopia.
• A traditional coffee ceremony will also be served.
• Later, you will be transferred to the airport for your departure.