Road to Chencha and the village of Dorzé, perched on the shoulder of the valley at almost 3000 m above sea level. The Dorzés speak an Omotic language, a group of languages ​​common much further south.
Visit the village made up of curious traditional huts, up to 12 meters high. The Dorzé ethnic group is also a people of weavers. You will see from spinning to weaving all the stages of manufacturing colorful fabrics. You will also see the production of “kotcho” made from the pulp of the false banana tree, “enset” which is the staple food of all southern Ethiopia.
Road to the town of Arba Minch, this very pleasant town is built on the side of a hill, it offers an extraordinary panoramic view of 2 lakes of the Rift Valley, Lakes Abaya and Chamo. Check into the hotel from where you have an exceptional view of the lakes.

Dinner and night at the Paradise Lodge 4* hotel

Day 5: ARBA MINCH / LAKE CHAMO / JINKA

En route stop on the shores of Lake Chamo and boat trip on the lake to discover the thousands of birds that populate it, crocodiles and hippos. Continuation towards the Omo valley and its mosaic of peoples and cultures through a hilly agricultural region then the savannah. Arrival at Weyto, where the Tsemay and Erboré populations mingle with fascinating facial masks. Passage through the Key Afer market (Thursday – meeting with the populations: Bena, Ari, Tsemay). Continue to Jinka.

Dinner and night at the 3* eco-Omo lodge

Day 6: JINKA / TURMI

In the morning, enter Mago National Park where the agro-pastoral Mursi tribe lives on the banks of the Omo River. A torrid climate, their warlike practices preserved them for a long time from any contact with modernity. Like the Hamer and the Banna, the Musis have a social organization and ritual practices based on an age class system. High-ranking Musis women practice the insertion of a labret in the lower lip, of increasingly large size. The origin of this strange practice is not completely understood.
In the afternoon, drive to Turmi.

Dinner and night at Buska Lodge 3*

Day 7: TURMI

Road to the Omo valley, to Koricho via Murulle to visit the Karo tribe (1500 members only). They practice a very accomplished art of chalk-based body painting. This custom precedes every dance, party or celebration.
The tribe lives in the lower green valley of the Omo River (which flows into Lake Turkana, Kenya) and has many cultural symbols that are part of their rituals, such as body painting, special hairstyles, labrets, jewelry and scarifications on the body considered a sign of beauty and also a mark of function in the tribe. The Karos are a people of farmers who have become sedentary and live on the banks of the Omo River.
Return to Turmi for lunch. (Market day in Turmi: Monday)
In the afternoon visit a Hamar village. The Hamar ethnic group is the most beautiful and largest ethnic group in the Omo. Semi-nomadic pastoralists, warriors and hunters like their neighbors, they fascinate visitors. They share some traditions with other nearby tribes such as the Tsemay, the Ari and the Benna: one of them consists of jumping over bulls (“Bull Jumping”).

Dinner and night at the Buska Lodge 4* hotel

Day 8: TURMI / KONSO

Road to Konso country. In a relatively arid environment, the Konsos have developed terraced agriculture which has led UNESCO to classify the landscapes shaped by the Konsos as a World Heritage Site. The Konsos live in fortified villages which attest to their traditional conflictual relationships with their Borana neighbors. We will visit one of these villages. Konso society is very structured, made up of 9 clans and lineages and obeying a complex generational class system. Despite the massive conversion to Protestantism, the Konso people are still attached to the traditional cult of the unique god Waqq and to the funerary cult materialized by the “Waqa” steles of carved wood. Stop at Karat Konso.

Dinner and night at the Kanta Lodge 4* hotel

Day 9: KONSO / YABELO

Road to Yabelo and the Borana country, a people of pastoralists and fierce warriors who live in the south of Ethiopia and the north of Kenya in an arid region. South of Yabelo, we will go to the Soda region to discover one of the fascinating Borana wells.
To survive in this hostile environment, the Boranas have for centuries dug wide and very deep wells, essential for their herds, from where the water is brought up by a human chain to the surface, accompanied by songs. A unique spectacle fascinating you. We will also see a crater lake from which villagers extract mud saturated with salt, essential to men and animals. Return to Yabelo.

Dinner and night at Yabelo Motel 3*

Day 10: YABELO / YIRGALEM

Road towards the north and the Sidamo country, on the eastern shoulder of the great Rift Valley, with tropical vegetation, where pineapples, mangoes, papayas and especially coffee are grown. Visit to a coffee plantation. En route also visit the megalithic site of Tutufela, where several hundred phallic or anthropomorphic monoliths stand. Their origin remains mysterious, but are dated between the 8th and 11th centuries AD. Continuation to Yirgalem and installation at the superb Aregash Ecolodge built in the middle of a tropical garden.

Dinner and night Aregash Lodge 3*

Day 11: YIRGALEM / ADDIS

Road to Addis via Tiya, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Around forty steles, erected in the 13th or 14th century AD, bear engraved swords and mysterious symbols, probably funerary monuments in homage to warriors. Others wear feminine symbols. Arrival in Addis.
Stroll through the Mercato, the largest market in the capital and in the Piazza district for the latest purchases.
Dinner, traditional song and dance show and transfer to the airport and Ethiopian Airlines flight to

Day 12: ARRIVAL IN PARIS