South Omo tour is accessible both by road and air. However, as flights are available only twice a week, for the sake of all convenience this part trip is mostly advisable should it be arranged all along by surface. For visiting one should allow at the least two days driving in either direction from Addis Ababa and four days in the region.
Moreover trying to plan the itinerary around the weekly market days will offer an optimum chance to interact with the local tribal people. The ideal time to make the South Omo tour is out of the rainy season. Poor roads and black cotton soil make travel practically difficult during the rainy season typically over April and May but sometimes extending a month either side of that. The short rains in October may also put a temporary stop to travel.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: AM depart by 4x4 vehicle southward of Addis for Arbaminch (500km). En-route you’ll visit the Rift Valley lakes that are teemed with different bird species. Overnight hotel.
Day 2: AM leave for Jinka (256km) enjoying the Omo Valley tribal people that preserve their traditional ways of life hardly changed from what they were centuries ago. Overnight hotel.
Day 3: AM drive through natural forest and undulating terrain to visit the Mursi tribe whose women wear circular clay plate on their lower lip as well ear lobes. PM visit Jinka town’s daily market and Ethnographic Museum that gives a good overview of the Omo Valley people culture and way of life.
Day 4: AM drive to Turmi en-route visiting Ari and Benna tribes. PM visit the villages of the archetypal South Omo residents the Hammer people that enjoy body decoration and wear quantities of colorful beads and clay hair buns with Ostrich feathers. Overnight camping.
Day 5: Full day excursion to visit Geleb (Dasanech) tribe in Omorate and in Murulle the Karo people who are considered the masters of body painting and decorate their bodies with chalk paint often imitating the spotted plumage of a guinea fowl. Overnight camping.
Day 6: AM drive back to Arbaminch (280km) visiting en-route Albore, Tsemai and Konso tribes’ villages. Overnight hotel.
Day 7: AM drive to Chencha village to visit the Dorze people, renowned cotton weavers as well construction of tall beehive-shaped dwellings. And then proceed driving back to Addis Ababa (455km) via Hossana and Butajira towns.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Includes:
- Accommodation in twin room sharing basis
- All the 3 meals of the day with mineral water
- Ground transportation in tourist standard 4x4 vehicles
- Entry fees to sights of interest as per itinerary
- Camping gears: tents, mattresses, pillows, sleeping bags, chairs, tables, cooking utensils and other necessary equipments
- Scouts in the national parks
- Cook
- Guide service
- All taxes.
Price Excludes:
- Any payable drinks/ beverages
- Payment or offerings for photographing and video shootings
- All expenses of personal.
Also see tour packages in:
Africa
Ethiopia
Cultural Journey
Ecotourism
Email it to a friend:
Click here to email this vacation to a friend
|
