Turmi, Ethiopia

Travel Blogs from Turmi (5)

Turmi - Day 6 of 10 - Omo Valley Trip, Turmi, Ethiopia travel blog
Turmi - Day 6 of 10 - Omo Valley Trip
Oct 8, 2005

... not a tourist spectacle, it is a marriage rite. They make some giant urns of coffee. Coffee originated in Ethiopia and coffee ceremonies are an important part of life here. They perform a 'whipping ceremony' where the eligible ...

A travel blog entry by bigadventure05
Hamar, Turmi, Ethiopia travel blog
Hamar
Sep 7, 2009

C est un peu le clou du spectacle ethnologique, assister a une ceremonie hamar qui s appelle le sauter le taureau (jumping bull ceremony en anglais). C est une ceremonie de mariage ou le marie doit sauter au dessus de 15 a 25 vaches, 3 a 4 fois et surtout ...

A travel blog entry by vmarchal
To Turmi - Day 5 of 10 - Omo Valley trip, Turmi, Ethiopia travel blog
To Turmi - Day 5 of 10 - Omo Valley trip
Oct 7, 2005

... school is a "modern" mud brick building that is unusable (missing windows and some walls etc.... Not sure why). TURMI We drive on to Turmi, an interesting town because both "regular" people and Hamar people live ...

A travel blog entry by bigadventure05
at death
at death's door
Oct 9, 2006

Now three days into our tour of the south, we are camping at this village that is home to the Hamer people, who still dress very traditionally. Today we visited their small but very colourful weekly market. They charge two birr each per photo (the rule ...

A travel blog entry by thesunroseclear

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