Ethiopia....

Here the letters are different, there are roughly 80 different tribes and we are in 1999 and not in 2007.

There are a lot of armed persons on the street, the country is open to toursists since 15 years only, there are people everywhere, everywhere, everywhere...

Our first ethiopian dinner...  we are supposed to eat with the right hand only....

Daniel explains geography lessons to Lisa...

After Moyale, we arrive in Yabelo. We camp in the mission .

In Ethiopia we are never alone...

At each stop, we have dozens of persons looking at what we are doing...

During the evening, the kids are watching a DVD which Father Francesco offered, Mr. Bean...

The watchman wants also to see the DVD, with his kalachnikof...you never know...

We leave for Omo Valley. It's a remote place where several tribes live close to each other...

Konso and his inhabitants.  First stop in the camping of the village.

Visite of the surroundings... the locals call this place New York...

The landscapes are nice !

We visit a 'small' market. It's quit difficult to move since they are all astonished to see a white family ...At one moment Catherine takes refuge in a house with the kids, they all want to touch us and Luka gets very irritated !

The "konso" people and their traditionnal clothes.

The villages are in the mountains, protected by thick walls.

The community hut. Here the young boys are living, until they get married.

The sacred trunk and the sacred stones.

All conflicts of the village are managed in that place.

The village is organized around terraces with corridors which permit to go from one point to the other. During our visit, we have a lot of kids, holding us the hands...

The living conditions are not easy...

We leave the village, impressed...and thank the chief for his welcome !