3 Days Omo Valley Tour

My tour guide Dani, was great. Truly was an exceptional driver, guide and all-around person. Unfortunately, the rest of the tour was forgetful. After a 90 minute flight Addis -> Jinka, and then a two hour car ride, we reach our first Tribe. I got the sense immediately that the tribe clearly didn't want outsiders there, but they want your money. It felt like a complete shake-down. Everyone wanted a "tip", or "contribution", and you're pressured into buying random little things that you don't even want. After I politely declined hundreds of times, I noticed a rising sense of hostility from the tribe, so out of an act of self-preservation, I bought some random clay chachki. Each tribe has their own “guide” which of course when he introduces himself to me he gives me a long story about how he has 11 kids and is the sole provider…. I was on this tour alone and felt completely vulnerable. It was so unsettling that after the first tribal visit, I told Dani I wanted to leave and fly back to Addis. Fortunately, again, Dani was AMAZING and very accommodating. He worked to ensure my flight was changed and I flew back to Addis the next day after and forgetful night in Karat (in which the electricity went out at night and stayed out the whole night, because why not)