Ethiopia
We departed from Wilson airport in Kenya to Illeret at the far northern tip of Lake Turkana. From there we met up with the vehicles for the 8hr drive up the Omo River to Omo Rate, where we camped for the next 8 days visiting a Hammer tribal village for the Bull Jumping Ceremony, a Kara village for bull jumping and Mursi people- all who depend upon the Omo River for their living.
We left Wilson airport in Nairobi early in the morning, charter flight for our group of 6, flying into Illeret on the North Kenya border with Ethiopia. From there, we met up with our...
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The Hammer people live along the banks of the Omo River in the Omo Rate area of the Omo Delta. This river eventually flows into Lake Turkana, Kenya. While taking a break from the Kara...
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The Mursi people have a difficult to understand relationship between them, the Karo and the Hammer. The Mursi are agriculturalists who plant the rich soils along the Omo River banks and...
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