Southern Ethiopia – Korcho

The following are dancers from the bull jumping I was not able to include before.

We visited the Karo people in the Korcho village on the Omo River.

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Saw lots of guinea fowl on the way with their beautiful blue plumage.

This tribe has the least amount of members and is known for their body painting.

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Our young guide, who was home for a break from school in Turmi, explained  that the villagers’ body painting is typical of their tradition.

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This woman’s home.

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The large white bags contain grains and the yellow containers are for drinking water. The family sleeps on goat skins spread on the ground at night.  All their implements for cooking and eating are hung on the walls.

Grinding clay for hair decorating.

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The tribe are herdsmen.

We visited the village school. For some of these tribes education is not embraced as the older generation feel their culture will be lost if the children are educated. This school was built by Save the Children.

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Our guide said the teachers come from Tumi but soon they will have a teacher who lives in the village.

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Our guide with his nephew.

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A great variety of termite homes everywhere. All shapes and sizes.

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