Jinka – Omo valley – 3 Days

Day 1: Departure

FLY ADDIS TO JINKA ( BACO)

In this 3-Day Tour to Omo valley – From Jinka – South Land Ethiopia Tours, we Pick you up from the airport head to Turmi where we will have several villages stops on our way down to meet the tribes we come across as such: Banna and Hammer tribes village life daily activity with no interruptions. Inlet the afternoon we will visit Hammer village overnight Buska Lodge.

Day 2

In the morning we drive further down to Omorate which is a border town with Northwest Kenya as to visit the Dasenech tribe deep in their remote villages leaving the commonly visited ones by going down as far as the Northern tip of Lake Turkana and experience a wonderful time you will never forget. after lunch Drive Jinka on the way attend weekly Markets overnight at Jinka Resort.

Day 3

On the last day of the Omo valley tour, we have an early morning start as we enter Mago National Park at 06:00 in order to reach the Mursi Tribe while the light is still soft. Most famous for the clay lip plates that the women insert in their lower lips, the Mursi are probably one of the last tribes in Africa amongst whom it is still the norm for women to wear this large pottery or wooden discs or plates.

The lip plate (dhebi a tugoin) has become the chief visible distinguishing characteristic of the fascinating Mursi people. A girl’s lower lip is cut, typically by her mother or another woman of her settlement, when she reaches the age of 15 or 16. The cut is then held open by a wooden plug until the wound heals. It appears to be up to the individual girl to decide how far to stretch the lip, which she does by inserting progressively larger plugs over several months. Some girls even persevere until their lips can take plates of 5 inches (12 cm) or more in diameter!

The Mursi and their neighbors became part of the Ethiopian State in the final years of the 19th century when Emperor Menelik II established control over the southwestern lowlands bordering Kenya and Sudan.