We drove through the Mago National Park to see the Mursi tribe who live in the park,   the newest National Park in Ethiopia. During the drive we saw colobus monkeys, baboons, dik diks (a small antelope), a great bustard and an assortment of other birds, none of which I got on camera as they were too fast but fun to see.

 

Mursi women are famous for putting clay plates in their lips which is considered beautiful and a way of identifying and differentiating themselves from the surrounding tribes.

Decorating clay plates for the market.

Heading to get water from the river.

Village chief with his twins.

This community of 120 received its first school one month ago. The teacher, below, told us that everyone in the community is coming to the school. The first course is Amharic, the national language.

Drying sorghum to make homemade beer.