Omo Valley

Omo Valley

Omo Valley

Home to the Mursi and Hamar people, just two of the area’s best-known communities, the Omo Valley is a virtually unexplored frontier for travelers, and unlike any other place on Earth. With an outstanding number of indigenous tribes in a relatively small area, the Omo Valley is packed with tradition, fortified hilltop settlements, terraced fields and anthropomorphic grave-markers. Intrepid travelers will also find the Shappe Rock Engravings, thought to be more than 5,000 years old.

The Lower Omo River in south west Ethiopia is home to eight different tribes whose population is about 200,000.

They have lived there for centuries.

However the future of these tribes lies in the b...

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