Ethiopia - 2005

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December 27th 2005

Published: December 9th 2019

From Lucy, to Haile Gebreselassie via women with lip plates We also travelled before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about some of them. We will write when we have the time and time is usually scarce so these blog entries will be far in between. As of now we have been averaging one per year. This blog i... Read Full Entry

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Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Ake Och Emma

We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden. We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them. Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are Angel Falls in Ven... full info

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Boys in Omo Valley

Two boys we met in Omo Valley.

Boy in Omo Valley

Boy in Omo Valley adorned with paint.

Boy in Omo Valley

This boy is probably not of the Mursi people. Several other indigenous people live in southern Ethiopia

Mursi woman

The women of the Mursi tribe adorn their bodies with paint, scarification and by piercing holes in their lips in which they place lip plates.

Mursi women

When the women don't have the lip plate in the lip has a big empty hole

Mursi woman

We have seen pictures of women wearing lip plates but we didn't think that we would ever see it with our own eyes. We thought it was a practice that went extinct in early 20th century.

Ake and a Mursi woman

A Mursi woman we met in a village near Jinka

Mursi woman

Mursi woman with a very large lip plate

Warrior in the Mursi village

On the upper arm he has a big scarification.

Village in Omo Valley

A rural village in Omo Valley.

Mursi woman

Mursi women

Mursi woman

Mursi woman holdin a lip plate. Copyright belongs to Harvey Follender. Used by permission

Harvey and two tribal women

Crocodile farm

On the way to Addis Ababa we stopped at a crocodile farm

Wondo Genet Resort Hotel

Wondo Genet Resort Hotel was a bit run down and there were very few guests there. But it was a hotel that had soul and we really liked it there. It felt a bit sad that so few people found their way to it.

Replica of the skeleton of Lucy (and Emma making a joke)

We went to National Museum of Ethiopia because we wanted to see the exhibition about the Lucy. And Emma wanted to make a silly joke...

Olympic Cafe

Olympic Cafe is a restaurant owned by long distance runner Haile Gebreselassi.

Haile Gebreselassi

An advertisement with a photo of Haile Gebreselassi. Back in 2005 he was still in his prime and he was one of the best long distance runners in the world.

An advertisement for a Swedish company

An advertisement for a Swedish company, a company we didn't know existed. But why do they have one of the words in the add in Swedish? "Sågklingor" means "saw blades" by the way

Something a bit funny at the end

Something a bit funny as a gift to all of you who made it to the end. Not Burger King, but Burger Queen...

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Do they mix the juices with local water???

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Some do
Some restaurants mix the juice with local water so it is important to only visit trustworthy restaurants. /Ake

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Not surprised ;o)

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Love the decorated gourds, even gourds as hats?

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Their outfits are special
They have very interesting outfits. It was so fascinating to see it. /Ake

9th December 2019

The local transport to and from the market towns

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

wow, what an adventure!

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

I can't go there, I'm allergic to dust LOL

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

yikes!!

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Fun to see, not fun to have
I guess you can get used to have the lip platse but there is no way that it can be fun. /Ake

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

They also need support bras LOL

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

How to they eat? are they removable?

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

They are removable
They can remove the lip plates and I guess they have to do that when they eat. /Ake

9th December 2019

Harvey Follender
non-member comment

Friends meeting on the way to Jinka, Ethiopia
Your Ethiopia 2005 Blog brings back fond memories of our visit to the Mursi tribes in Ethiopia's South Omo River Valley. It was a pleasure to met you and to remain friends for 14 years (so far). I appreciate your Swedish viewpoint on world events, national health, and royalty. I especially treasure memories of our visit (with my son) to Yemen and the Hadramout desert during 2006, when it was briefly accessible and relatively safe.

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Goes both ways
We are equally happy to have had the pleasure to get to know you and your family. /Ake

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

ooook do they eat the meat? or??

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

For sure
Oh yes, they eat meat. Find it very hard to believe that you can get crocs to turn vegetarians. /Ake

9th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Very interesting album!

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Thank you
...and also many thanks that you read about our travels. /Ake

9th December 2019

RENanDREW
Ren & Andrew

Ethiopia
I can imagine that digitising slides would have taken a bit of time, but now your photos are preserved for the future. I don't know if Harvey is hardcore or straight out tempting fate by continuing to fly in that plane! :)

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

If the pilots dare...
Well if the pilots dare to fly the planes, well how bad can it then be? Perhaps that was how he thought about it. Besides, if you want to travel to some of the distant parts of Ethiopia you have few alternatives. You take the plane and hope for the best. /Ake

9th December 2019

Home and Away
Bob Carlsen

Thanks so much for starting to post trips taken before Travelblog...
Not only does it preserve your history, but also gives you something to write about between your current trips.

10th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Brings back memories
Writing about the old journeys brings back memories. We had a really good time on that trip and it feels good to think about it once more. /Ake

10th December 2019

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Ethiopia 2005
Fascinating to read of your time in my "jewel of Africa" country in 2005. The plane looks fine from the photo but did the pilot keep the cockpit door open throughout the flight? Either way the flight sounds one for the ages. I have been was thinking what was the most dangerous thing we have done in our travels and that flight must be among yours!

11th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

I've been through worse actually
My scariest travel experience was probably a bus ride. I was alone in the minibus, the driver was driving much too fast on a narrow dark road and he was obviously in a bad mood. I thought I was going to die. /Ake

10th December 2019

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

The Mursi
A fascinating tribe to be sure. When we were there in 2011, the Mursi had recently been forcibly relocated from next to the river to a dry inhospitable area in the Mago National Park to a make way for dams on the Omo River. My blog "Ethiopia: Stretched Lips & AK47s" dealt with the relocation issues.Their new site was depressing in the extreme. Can you recall whether their village you visited in 2005 was next to the river and did they aggressively collect money (birr) for photos?

11th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Kinda dry and they were pushy
I remember that the area where they lived looked quite dry to me. I can't say for sure that the land was inhospitable but it sure looked so to me. They were quite pushy when it came to demanding money for photos. At the beginning it felt like they were aggressive. But when I got used to it I preferred to say that they were "pushy" or "competitive". I remember when I took the photo of the warrior. He was tall. Maybe 185 cm tall and around 20 cm taller than anybody else. But I am taller, 197 cm. The warrior approached me and put on a display and was very pushy and wanted me to take a photo of him. He posed and I took the photo. When that was done he ran up to me and compared how short he was next to me. I then asked him if I could touch him scar on his upper arm and he was perfectly OK with that. /Ake

10th December 2019

Dancing Dave
David Hooper

Great photos...Great memories
The images may be digitalised from slides but hey...they are great. Must be fantastic to have preserved your memories and by blogging it now, the memories must be flooding back.

11th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Walk down memory lane
So many memories come back to us when we write these blogs. They are fond memories so we really enjoy it. /Ake

10th December 2019

Rainyb
Lorraine Brecht

Tee hee, what I meant was "do the locals eat croc meat? LOL

11th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Now it makes sense
How stupid of me not to understand that. I am not the sharpest tool in the box... I would think they eat the meat but the crocodiles are farmed mainly for their skin. It's not primarily a food farm. /Ake

11th December 2019

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Excellent Ethiopia
I enjoyed reading along.

11th December 2019

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Thank you
Thanks. Glad you liked it. /Ake

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