You came a long way to see the Blue Nile Falls and hopefully they are turned on when you arrive. The damn was open for our visit but getting there is the trick. First, you can take public minibuses there but be warned that the road is horrible and the drive is 90 minutes. A … Continue reading
You saw the pictures from the market at Key Afar the previous day (posted last month) and here is who we picked up on the way back. From left to right we have Meekay (spelled as sounds), Emany, and Bure. We are headed to their village. With a goat to celebrate their recent success at … Continue reading
NOTE: This is directly from my journaling the night after this experience in Omo Valley, January 2014 (2006 in Ethiopia) unless its bold and italics We stopped to pick up some boys from the Banna tribe en route to the market in Key Afar. The 4 boys had hair styled the same bright bands on … Continue reading
Note: this was started the day of this event and the section written at home is in bold and italics. Both are adequately stream of consciousness! Only a handful of kilometers from the South Sudan border there is an oven where a well decorated people raise cattle, sorgum, and wheat to meet their basic needs … Continue reading
We are all Ethiopian. Lucy was unearthed here, her body 3.2 million years old. I don’t imagine much mixing has happened, relative to the rest of the world, since this time. Here today and for at least 5 or 6 centuries the Afar people have toiled in this arid land eeking out a living. … Continue reading
You have seen these baboons in The Life of Mammals featuring superstar, Sir David Attenborough. We get right up and close. Amazing! Please Share as always! See some tips for trekking the Simien Mountains!
On my third day in Ethiopia, we headed fro Axum to Mekele to take a tour of the Danakil Depression. The arid landscape was full of smiling faces but suddenly..there was a mob of men in the road ahead. They all held AK-47’s. I was SO nervous. This land is lawless. As we drove on … Continue reading
Check it out! New years day sunrise. The lava was washing the rocks where people had stood the night before. The wind nearly melted my camera and burned my skin causing me to shift constantly….then as this got really active I began to get a little anxious…. Check out the video from the night before … Continue reading
BAM! There are only three places in the world to experience this and at Ertale, in the Danakil Depression, there is no limit to how close you can get. This was the hottest place to countdown the incoming new year. Please Share! Check out the next morning for some perspective!
Note: This is written post visit to Omo Valley, Ethiopia December 2013. Seeing these images now in Fairbanks, Alaska where we are calling the season Spring because the day approaches 12 hours in length but the thermometer remains well below freezing is quite a contrast to conditions when I shot these photos. I was a … Continue reading
Emany and the Borena kids getting together for a photo. When you ask people in Ethiopia to pose for a picture, they tighten up and lose their smile. We shouted, laugh, tickled, and smiled and got some to crack a smile. The thing about kids is they love to mimick. With crazy wing and dust … Continue reading
This is my first day in Ethiopia. I came by accident and I fell in love with this country. Here is a glimpse into life in the city where Orthodox Christianity made its first foot hold and where the home of Sheba lies in ruin. … Continue reading
Note: This was written while drinking buna the morning after my visit with the Karo. I was in Turmi village in Hamar country. On the banks of the Omo River less than 100km bit over 3 hours to drive there is a rich forest with a dense canopy where the shade is brilliant and the … Continue reading
Note: This was written the day of our visit to the Arume Village We ate in a dry village where oilfield workers on lunch shift filed past to get injeera with tibs (chewy beef chunks with onion and Serrano). The food was good and somehow, despite the heat, I had a savage appetite. The hot … Continue reading
This is a retrospective of my first day in Ethiopia… Girls came running at our Tuk-tuk (motorcycle type taxi) “Sir! Sir!” They did not shout though rather whispered loudly. “Give me pen, sir, buy my cross”. They sold cheap crosses to get money for school supplies. I was instantly charmed to death bu this whispering … Continue reading
Before coming to trek the Simien Mountains you have already been in Ethiopia for at least a few days so you know some basic issues that may arise with communication, scheduling, and transport. We had many questions about how to organize when we arrived in Gondar and worked it out but hopefully this will save … Continue reading
I’ll let this footage from January 2014 speak for itself.. If you would like to read a bit about THIS experience please follow this link There is no god here, just people… Share this EVERYWHERE!
Ethiopia is the cradle of humanity, Rastafarianism, Queen of Sheba, the Land of Lucy, and most importantly, the place where coffee was first brewed. On any street in Ethiopia you can find “buna” (pronounced bun-ah). It’s not what you get at home or from the coffee shop. In the West you may only find it … Continue reading
You have seen the collection of “Stunning Portraits Of The World’s Remotest Tribes Before They Pass Away”. Here are some women and children in the Banna tribe getting behind me and my camera as I make a video on the day of a bull jumping ceremony in Omo Valley, Ethiopia PLEASE SHARE!!
These are Banna people (of the famous 46 must see photos of tribes that will disappear) living their daily lives. When they need water, they go to the dry river bed, dig a hole and scoop water in to jugs which they carry often several miles/kms to get home. Here a man showers using the … Continue reading
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