Ethiopia | Airplane + Chartered Car Tour to the Kara Primitive Tribes
| Airplane + Chartered Car Tour to the Kara Primitive Tribes.
✈️: It takes just over an hour to fly from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to Jinka, and the round-trip airfare is 580, with Star Alliance membership points available. Show your membership code when checking in.
The capital's airport was built by China, and the facilities in Jinka and the surrounding area were also constructed by China. A hotel is being built by Chinese people 150 meters from the airport, which will make future visits even more convenient and safe.
🌲Best time to visit: October to December
There are 16 tribes in the south of Ethiopia, each with its own language and unique culture. They rarely communicate with each other and often fight over territory.
Select representative tribes to visit, most of which are in the south near Turmi, close to Kenya.
1️⃣Dasenech: To reach this village, you need to ride in a canoe made from fig trees, offering the closest depiction of African portraits. They are also the only tribe that still practices circumcision, which is illegal now, but still exists in remote tribes. There is a small market in the village square every day, selling handicrafts. Visitors can barter, with clothes being quite popular.
2️⃣Hamer: Also known as the 'Red Mud Tribe', they have the Bull jumping ceremony. Unmarried individuals with hair curtains and the main wife with a wooden collar.
3️⃣Karo: The face-painting tribe living in the Omo Valley, they apply white mud dug up from the valley on their faces.
4️⃣Mursi: Between Mago National Park and the World Heritage Site Omo Valley, where the oldest human stone tools were found, live the lip-plate tribe Mursi, the only tribe living in a national park, with about 50 small settlements. They move every month or two because the grass for the animals is depleted. They don't eat guinea fowl, only the eggs, and no one knows why. They are aggressive, so speak less when entering their village. The lip plates are made of clay, and the ear plates are made of wood.
5️⃣Dorze village: Didn't visit, only know they produce attractive small scarves.
6️⃣ Banna: The stilts tribe. Whether in the south or north, the roadblocks for extortion are not for money, but for water, which is a hard currency here, and you can't buy it even if you have money. The stilts tribe stops people for water.
🎁Keyafa Market: It's held every Thursday, quite large, but you can't really buy anything; it's all local produce, handicrafts, and clothing.
💰Chartered car: 3 days, including airport transfers, all food, water, and photography fees, basic accommodation costs 600 US dollars per car. A driver and a guide accompany you. If you shoot a video, an additional 500 local currency per person.
🏡Recommended accommodation: Evangadi Lodge