This unique and exciting photo tour consists Omo Valley and the wonderful Ethiopian Epiphany Celebration called Timket. Visiting the Christian north of the country Lalibela for Ethiopian colorful celebration Epiphany/Timket and the Rock hewn churches of Lalibela, you will get to photograph the wonderful Ethiopian Epiphany Celebration/Timket where priests, deacons and serious devotees by the hundreds dress in colorful and exotic attire and are happy to be photographed. They celebrate and memorialize the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River.

You will visit also the magnificent rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, a UNESCO world heritage site. This group of eleven monolithic and semi-monolithic structures were carved directly in to the stone of mountainside at least 900 years ago. The Omo Valley for an extraordinary cultural experience and outstanding photography. It is truly like going back in time thousands years.

You will visit the Konso, Mursi, Karo, Arbore and Hamar tribes to name a few, You will spend a couple of days visiting their villages and intermingling with the different tribes, learning about their lifestyle, attending ceremonies and rituals, and you will have up close and intimate portrait opportunities that you’ll treasure forever. Your tour and photography guide Mulugeta will welcome you at Bole International airport in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, where you can rest and overnight. If you have enough energy after the long flight, you can visit the National Museum of Ethiopia and photograph the skeleton of Lucy, a hominid that dates from 3.2 million years.