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The Dorze people living in highlands west of the Abyssinian Rift Valley have a unique style of building their homes. The twenty foot high bamboo frame is covered with the sheaths of bamboo stems or straw, and resembles a giant beehive.Doorways are set in a bulge of the house, which forms a reception area for guests.These remarkable houses can last for forty years or more.
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The mysterious site of Tiya, containing around 36 ancient stelae, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Tiya, Ethiopia, Africa
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Traditional beehive house of the Dorze people, made entirely from organic materials, that can last up to 60 years, Chencha mountains, Rift Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Portrait of a woman with face painting, Mago National Park, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Warriors of the nomadic Afar tribe carry large curved daggers, known as jile, strapped to their waists.Proud and fiercely independent, they live in the low lying deserts of Eastern Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia, Harerge Province, Harar.An Harari girl in wedding attire.Unlike Muslims elsewhere, Harari women love bright clothes and are seen in public without face veils.The beautifully embroidered silk dress can be turned inside out, where it is black, and worn at funerals.
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Ethiopia is a land of vast horizons and dramatic scenery. The weathered mountains in the Ethiopian Highlands exhibit layer upon layer of volcanic material, which built the plateau into Africas most extensive upland region.Agriculture forms the background of the country's economy with 90 percent of its population earning a living from the land.
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An old Oromo woman wears a brass necklace and pendant, and a silver pendant made from a Maria Theresa thaler, an old silver coin minted in Austria, which was widely used as currency in northern Ethiopia and Arabia until the end of World War II. With a bright red headscarf, She was on her way to Senbete, an important weekly market close to the western scarp of the Abyssinian Rift.
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A woman sells yellow daisies by the side of the road in the outskirts of Addis Abeda,Ethiopia's capital city.These daisies (Bidens sp.) are known by Ethiopians as Meskal daisies because they flower in September at the time of the Orthodox Christian Festival of Meskal,or the Finding of the True Cross celebration.
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Hamer girls standing in front of house, wearing traditional goat skin dress decorated with cowie shells, Dombo village, Turmi, Lower Omo valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Priest with cross, Bet Meskel, an excavated chapel in the northern wall of the courtyard of Bet Maryam, Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa
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Hamer lady wearing traditional goat skin dress decorated with cowie shells, carrying kalash on her way to market, Dombo village, Turmi, Lower Omo valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Fertile farming land surrounds Lake Ashange in northern Ethiopia.Ethiopia is a land of vast horizons and dramatic scenery. The weathered mountains in the Ethiopian Highlands exhibit layer upon layer of volcanic material, which built the plateau into Africas most extensive upland region.
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A former governor's house in the medieval walled city of Harar. Once an independent city-state dating back to the early 16th century,Harar was incorporated into the Ethiopian Empire in 1887. It is considered sacred in the Muslim world. Its citizens have their own language,customs and crafts.
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Waga (Wakka), carved wooden effigies of chiefs and warriors, now becoming rare as many have been stolen by art collectors, Konso, Southern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Africa
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A young Dassanech boy shows off his distinctive painted clay hairdo. The central panel consists of tightly packed coils of sisal thread extracted from grain sacks that allow the scalp to breathe underneath the clay. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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Ethiopia, Amhara Region, Lasta, Lalibela. At sunrise worshippers attend an early morning outside service at the famous ancient rock-hewn Church of Saint George.
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Ethiopia, Amhara Region, Lasta, Lalibela. At sunrise, worshippers attend an early morning outside service at the famous ancient rock-hewn Church of Saint George.
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Karo woman with child wearing traditional goatskin dress decorated with cowrie shells, Kolcho village, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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An attractive woman at Bati market.Situated on top of the western scarp of the Abyssinian Rift, Bati is the largest open air market in Ethiopia.Nomads and their camels trek long distances every week from the harsh low lying deserts to barter with Amhara and Oromo farmers living in the fertile highlands.
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Oromo family outside their house, Oromo village near Langano lake, Rift Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Famous carved wooden effigies of Waga (Wakka) chiefs and warriors, now becoming rare as many have been stolen by art collectors, Konso, southern area, Ethiopia, Africa
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Women sing and dance before the bull jumping, Hamer Jumping of the Bulls initiation ceremony, Turmi, Lower Omo valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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man standing next to Bananas in a market stall in Gonder, Gonder, Ethiopia, Africa
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A Karo woman with her face painted in preparation for a dance in the village of Duss. A small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar, who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia, the Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk, crushed rock and other natural pigments. She is wearing a goatskin apron and carries a leather belt decorated with cowrie shells
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A Dassanech man shows off his distinctive clay hairdo. The central pannel consists of tightly packed coils of sisal thread extracted from grain sacks that allow the scalp to breathe underneath the clay. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A Dassanech girl leaning against a bale of cattle fodder on a raised platform is silhouetted against the evening sky at a settlement alongside the Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) are Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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Mother and baby of the Hamer tribe, the woman's hair is treated with ochre, water and resin then twisted into tresses called goscha, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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A young Nyangatom woman carries her baby on her hip in an elaborately braided papoose. Her hair has been reddened with a mixture of ochre and animal fat. Typical of her tribe, she wears a calfskin skirt, multiple layers of bead necklaces and metal bracelets and amulets. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south western
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Close to Degum, the rock hewn church of Debretsion stands on top of a massif, which forms part of the spectacular Gheralta Mountains of Northern Ethiopia.A Tigray homestead stands on the arid Hawzien Plain hundreds of feet below. Flat roofed stone houses, which are common throughout Tigray Province, may have been introduced into Ethiopia from Arabia as early as 700 BC.
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Tsemay man in colourful clothing at weekly market, Key Afir, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Karo people with body painting, made from mixing animal pigments with clay, dancing, Kolcho village, Lower Omo valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Two women cutting and gathering animal feed crops, Harer, Ethiopia, Africa
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Basket-work market, Axoum (Axum) (Aksum), Tigre region, Ethiopia, Africa
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New monument to Ethiopia's fallen, Bahir Dar, Gondar region, Ethiopia, Africa
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A woman emerges from a tunnel leading to the rock-hewn church of Bet Amanuel, in Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa
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Hamer (Hamar) girl in goatskin dress, Dombo Village, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Painted houses of the Alaba peoples near Kulito, Rift Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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An elder of the Karo tribe sits with his wife and child. A small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar,who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia,the Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk,crushed rock and other natural pigments. This man also has a clay hairdo typical of tribal elders. Like most adult males he carries a rifle.
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Hamer (Hamar) people at Evangadi dancing (Hamer night dance), Dombo village, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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A large gathering of people at Senbetes livestock market, which is an important weekly market close to the western scarp of the Abyssinian Rift.Afar nomads from the low-lying arid regions of Eastern Ethiopia trek long distances there to barter with Amhara and Oromo farmers living in the fertile highlands.Agriculture forms the background of the country's economy with 90 percent of its population ea
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Close-up of blacksmith's hands working on metal cross,Axoum (Axum) (Aksum),Tigre region,Ethiopia,Africa
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Fine murals decorate the interior of the rock hewn church of Yohannes Maequddi, a two hour walk from Degum on a plateau of the Gheralta Mountains east of Debretsion.The spacious rectangular interior is best known for its ancient, well-preserved murals and paintings.
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Face painting with a mixture of clay, oils and plant pigments in preparation for the Hamer (Hamar) jumping of the bulls initiation ceremony, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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Hamer (Hamar) girl wearing traditional goat skin dress decorated with cowie shells carrying baby, Dombo village, Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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A Karo women stands in the doorway to her hut in the village of Duss. A small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar, who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia, the Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk, crushed rock and other natural pigments. In addition to painting her face she has decorated her body with whorls of goat hair tied by leather co
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A Karo woman wears an elaborate headdress made from the wing-cases of beetles and a cape of calf skin fringed with cowrie shells. A small Omotic tribe related to the Hamar,who live along the banks of the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia,the Karo are renowned for their elaborate body painting using white chalk,crushed rock and other natural pigments.
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Karo man with body painting, made from mixing animal pigments with clay, at dancing performance, Kolcho village, Lower Omo valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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A view of the vast,rock-strewn landscape close to Mikael Imba Church,near Atsbi in Ethiopia's most northerly region of Tigray.
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Aloes add a splash of colour to the parched landscape close to Debre Selam Church,near Atsbi in Ethiopia's most northerly region of Tigray.Flat-roofed stone houses,which are common throughout Tigray Province,may have been introduced into Ethiopia from Arabia as early as 700 BC.
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View over Gonder and the Royal Enclosure from the top of Fasiladas' Palace, Gonder, Gonder region, Ethiopia, Africa
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A tourist accompanied by a retinue of children in a Dassanech settlement along the lower Omo River. Much the largest of the tribes in the Omo Valley numbering around 50,000,the Dassanech (also known as the Galeb,Changila or Merille) and Nilotic pastoralists and agriculturalists.
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A view of spectacular mountain scenery between Senbete and Kombolcha.Ethiopia is a land of vast horizons and dramatic scenery. The weathered mountains in the Ethiopian Highlands exhibit layer upon layer of volcanic material, which built the plateau into Africas most extensive upland region.
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Terraced cultivation on a ledge of the western scarp of the Abysinnian Rift Valley at Ankober.Ethiopia is a land of vast horizons and dramatic scenery. The weathered mountains in the Ethiopian Highlands exhibit layer upon layer of volcanic material, which built the plateau into Africas most extensive upland region.
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A rainbow rises behind the temporary grass huts of a Nyangatom settlement. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south-western Ethiopia.
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Portrait of a Karo tribesman, with face and body painted with chalk to represent the spotted plumage of the guinea fowl, Omo river, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
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A young Dorze boy winds cotton onto a bobin for his father. Dorze men are synonymous with weaving the best cotton cloth in Ethiopia.
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Scenery between Desse and Bati in the Welo Province of northern Ethiopia with an unfinished thatched house in the foreground. Upturned clay pots are often placed over the protruding centre poles of houses to prevent rain getting in. .
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The impressive Shewa Gate is one of the seven entrances to the medieval walled city of Harar. Once an independent city-state dating back to the early 16th century,Harar was incorporated into the Ethiopian Empire in 1887. It is considered sacred in the Muslim world. Its citizens have their own language,customs and crafts.
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Portrait of a woman of the Hamer tribe, her hair treated with ochre, water and resin and twisted into tresses known as goscha, Lower Omo Valley, Southern Ethiopia, Africa
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A Nyangatom woman wearing an elegant skirt with a short beaded fringe at the font and long calfskin tail reaching the ground at the back. This woman has a broad belt decorated with cowrie shells. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south-western Ethiopia.
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A Nyangatom woman wears multiple layers of beads in necklaces, an elaborately beaded calfskin skirt and metal bracelets, amulets and anklets. She is standing beside a temporary beehive construction of sticks, grass and leaves built to provide shade for her goats. The Nyangatom or Bume are a Nilotic tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who live along the banks of the Omo River in south western Ethio
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