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Travel Blogs from Jinka, Ethiopia
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To Jinka: Day 3 of 10 day Omo Valley trip
... Village had a school and a teacher. Teacher's house looks to be the best in town. Drove on to our overnight destination of Jinka. Scenery again becomes lush and green as we climb out of the Omo Valley. Jinka is like a wild west town where the ...
at peace
... , ETH. 15:00 (9 o'clock local time) Distance Traveled: 180 km Road Conditions: Omorate to Turmi rough dirt tracks, Turmi to Jinka pretty smooth alongside road that's being constructed. Overall Average: 34.01 km/hr Max Speed: 75.4 km/hr (but that ...
mursi mursi
... per photo from tourists will surely keep the practice going. The government still exerts little influence on this part of Ethiopia, and tribal feuds, which result in numerous deaths annually, are ongoing. Venturing into the territory of a neighbouring ...
Saturday market in Jinka
... few Mursi people around (famous lip-stretchers, have a look at the picture below) who live in a village not too far from Jinka. Approaching the tourists and trying to get some birr (Ethiopian money) for taking a picture of them was their purpose of ...
driving in Ethiopia
... be interesting to know how many human lives have been lost after a driver went into a skid to miss a heifer. In two months in Ethiopia I've witnessed some spectacular near-misses, and we've massaged a few cows, but as far as I could tell we never clipped ...
Are We "Killing What We Love?"
... 8211; the museum is a culmination of what they have learned. They invited women from the different tribes to come to Jinka for a couple of days and answer questions not only from the anthropologists but also from each other. Their answers were ...
Mursi
Voici l'attraction du sud de l'Éthiopie, le peuple Mursi dont les femmes s'étirent les lèvres : question de statut social (suivant la taille du plateau qu'elle réussisse à introduire dans leur lèvre elles vaudront plus ou moins de vache), d'autres ...
Jinka
... a load of bottled Coke suffering alternately the rain and dust. We are happy we've decided to fly to Nairobi. January 30, 2008 Jinka, Ethiopia This morning we drive out to see the Mursey tribe. These are the women with plates in their lips. This is ...
Arba Minch to Jinka
... promises of free food) where they attempted to educate them about female circumcision, a practice that is still widely done in Ethiopia. He claimed that once people had been to these workshops that this tradition had been completely stopped, a fact I ...
The Key Afar market
... tribes go there so nice pics! The people know that the tourists are coming so dress up even more than they normally do. Met with Biruk, the guy I changed money with at the Kenya/ Ethiopia border and took the bus to Konso for an evening sleeping in my ...
Visiting the Tribes of South Omo
... heard monkeys -very distinct and eerie. Today we are going further into the Omo Valley and we will end up in the town of Jinka. Our first stop was to see the people of Dasanech. They have a cool way of gathering honey – they use ...
Exploring people of the Omo Valley
In the bus to Konso I met Solomon who was going to Jinka and invited me to go with him and meet his friends, Abraham, Gelana, Demelache, and some other guys.I stayed at Gelana's place which was perfect. In the evening had some nice Ethiopian food and got ...
Life Beyond Moyale...
Well i left us just managing to roll into Ethiopia. The campsite we rolled into had no running water - as there is a drought about, so we all got drinks, chatted to a couple of very nice locals and contemplated bucket baths the next day (as after 4 days ...
Omo Valley
... of this country,it's people and wildlife. Also we want to thank our ethiopian guide Zerihun Tassle of "Timeless Ethiopia" Tours for his cheerful and knowledgable guidance throughout the tour. To see the whole photo album of this trip, go to : ...
Colorful Thursday Key Afer Market
... of the skin skirts, plus the short wraps the young men wore certainly showed their well-toned legs off to advantage!! We got to the Jinka Resort but did not have reservations there. Then we came to the Jasmine or was it Usoh Hotel and they only had ...
08.04.: Spontantrip Tag 2: Pleiten, Pech und Panne
... endlich weiter gehen! Leider mit dem unguten Gefühl im Magen, dass wir 2 Stunden verloren haben und vermutlich doch nicht mehr nach Jinka fahren können. Das ist einfach zu weit weg und wenn die Straße so weiter geht, dann haben wir keine Chance. Also ...
Where it all began…
... in the heart of the Great Rift Valley was to visit the tribes of the Lower Omo Valley – the area of southwest Ethiopia described rather ominously as the "Southern Nation Nationalities & Peoples Regional State", close to the borders of Kenya and ...
Report from Jinka
Our last night in the Omo valley. We've been to nine or so villages and seen women with lip plates, people covered in clarified butter, naked men running across cows' backs, and lots of wildlife. Tomorrow we fly to Gondar and the second half of the ...
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