Africa

>Our last two days were spent heading back to the capital city, Addis Ababa…making a few stops along the way. Including a stop at the singing well. Three men bale water out of the well, pouring it into a reservoir which leads into a trough where people can bring their...

>The first thing that we did this morning was to stop at a school. Some of us had brought some pens with us and wanted to donate them to the school The school was not in session as it was a time for their holiday, but we were able to...

This morning, we headed further into the valley to visit the Mursi tribe.  Before we even arrived at the Mursi Village, we ran into some Mursi boys along the road…. Body painting is done by many of them, and, yes, clothes are optional… The Mursi are most known for their...

>On our way to a Banna farm the next morning, we saw these young boys filling up their water cans at a well. Wells such as these had been provided mostly by Norway. Their little sister was there with them… A Banna farmer met us along the road, and we...

>As we headed up the road this morning, we encountered some of the wildlife of Africa, including the dik-diks….. ….the guinea hens… …the jackal… …the olive baboons… …and of course you can’t go to any country in Africa without seeing the huge termite high-rise condos…. As we arrived at the...

>As we prepared to leave our hotel, this wart hog stopped by to wish us well….. ….this hotel had some cool paintings in the lobby… So then we were off to Lake Chamo for some wild life viewing. We all laughed when they gave us the life vests, as we...

>The next day, we headed out to visit some of the tribes in the Southern Omo Valley. There are a total of 16 tribes living in Southern Ethiopia. Each tribe has its own language and there is very little communication across tribes. We will be visiting about half of these...