Konso Tribe

Konso Tribe

The Konso live in an isolated region of the basalt hills.  The area is made up of hard rocky slopes.  Konso village maybe fortified by a stone wall used as a defensive measure.  Their village is located on hilltops and is split up into communities, with each community having a main hut.  In order to […]
Karo tribe

Karo tribe

The Karo is a small tribe with an likely population between 1,000 and 3,000.  They are closely related to the Kwegu tribe.  They live along the east banks of the Omo River in southern Ethiopia and practice flood retreat cultivation.  The crops that are grown by them are sorghum, maize and beans.  Only small cattle are […]
Daasanech or Dassanech Tribe

Daasanech or Dassanech Tribe

Also known as the Galeb or Geleb, this tribe lives just north of Kenya’s Lake Turkana.  Their neighboring tribe is the Turkana people.  The Daasanech are pastoralists but due to the harsh territory, they have moved south to grow crops and fish.  Cattle are used by the tribesman for meat, milk and clothing.  Often their cattle […]
Bodi or Me’en Tribe

Bodi or Me’en Tribe

The Bodi or Me’en people live close to the Omo River in southern Ethiopia.  South of the Bodi are the Mursi tribe.  They are pastoralists (livestock farmers) and agriculturalists.  Along the banks of the river, they will grow sorghum, mais and coffee.  They live with their cattle herds and livestock plays a large role in the tribe. Men of […]
Mago National Park

Mago National Park

Mogo national park is settled East of the Omo River, and stretching south towards the Chew Bahir basin, Mago National Park is rich in wildlife with few human inhabitants. The vegetation is mainly savannah grassland and savannah bush, extending across an area of 2, 160 square kilo meters. There are 81 Mammal species, including hartebeest, […]
Nech Sar National Park

Nech Sar National Park

Nech Sar National Park is 514-square kilometer wider park it is in the Rift Valley, and it have 2,000 metres above sea-level between lakes Abaya and Chamo...
Omo National Park

Omo National Park

Omo National Park is one of the largest park in the country,it have about 4,068 square kilometres of  wilderness to be found in remote south-western Ethiopia. adjoining to the Omo River,it is one of the richest and least visited wildlife sanctuaries in eastern Africa. Eland, oryx, Burchell’s zebra, Lelwel hartebeest, buffalo, giraffe, elephant, waterbuck, kudu, […]
Yangudi Rassa National Park

Yangudi Rassa National Park

It lies on 350 kilometres north-east of Addis Ababa, this 4,700-square kilometre this park is in the waterless northern Rift lowlands with shrubbery that ranges from semi desert and scrub to savannah and open woodland. there are about 36 mammals within the park are typical of the arid Horn of Africa and include Grevy’s zebra, […]
Lake Tana

Lake Tana

Lake Tana is the resource of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands...
Chamo and Abaya Lakes

Chamo and Abaya Lakes

These two lakes are Great Rift Valley Lakes situated in Southern Ethiopia. The two lakes are enclosed by savannah grasslands and Opaque Mountain crests. From the town of Arba Minch on the crumple of land that divides Abaya and Chamo there are superior views of the landscape all around including both lakes with Nech Sar […]
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