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00:00Deep in the heart of Ethiopia's Omo Valley, where the land is untouched by time, lives one of the last remaining African tribes, the Karo people.
00:14A people whose artistry is their identity, whose traditions tell the stories of generations, and whose way of life is a bridge to an ancient past.
00:25But to truly understand them, you have to go there.
00:30This has been more than just a road trip. It's been a journey through the soul of Southern Ethiopia, through the Omo Valley,
00:37a place where the landscape shifts like stories and the people carry centuries and centuries of tradition in their bones.
00:45I've passed through the dusty roads and quiet villages, met tribes with languages I've never heard of before
00:51and witnessed lives rooted so deeply in the rhythm and ritual of Africa.
00:56And now I'm here at the edge of the Omo River in the heart of the Karo village.
01:01Visiting Ethiopia is a part of my goal to visit every single country in the world.
01:06I came to Ethiopia all on my own, no group, just me. I wanted to experience the real heartbeat of the country.
01:14I wanted to connect with the tribes of the Omo Valley. I started in Addis Ababa, a city full of life,
01:20but then quickly got in a car and head south towards the beautiful villages.
01:25Traveling Ethiopia is part of my overall goal of visiting every single country in the world.
01:30My biggest hurdle is the continent of Africa. She has 54 countries and I've officially been to 12.
01:37I plan to stay in Africa for the entirety of 2025 and complete every single one of her 54 nations.
02:07I plan to stay in Africa.
02:14You said Salam.
02:16Yeah, I said hi.
02:19This is my fourth day traveling the beautiful Omo Valley of southern Ethiopia.
02:27We started in Addis Ababa, drove down to Abermensch and kept going south until we reached the beautiful Omo Valley.
02:36the beautiful thing about road tripping through ethiopia is you get to experience the extreme
02:42beauty everywhere you look there's this unique bird or this i don't know flower you've never
02:48seen we saw so many exotic birds and it was just absolutely breathtaking on our way to visit the
02:54coward people the cow people are one of the most striking tribes of the omel valley they're known
03:00for their beauty their resilience and their deep connection to the land that has shaped their lives
03:05for centuries each person in the carol tribe is a canvas using nature's pigment to tell stories of
03:13identity social status belief and so on their body paint created from white chalk red okra and charcoal
03:22is living art form they use their bodies as their canvas the carol are known for their artistry and
03:29you can see it in every aspect of their lives they design and they paint their skin just not
03:35as a decoration they are representing their personal stories their role in the tribe and even stages
03:42of life they've passed through
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08:30While you're driving through the southern coast of Ethiopia, you will just happen upon tribe after tribe after tribe.
08:36So, when we were driving, we happened to come across a market of the Mali tribe.
08:42The Mali tribe, they go to the mountains and they pick bananas.
08:46They have four or five different types of bananas, sweet, non-sweet, and really sweet, like three different levels of sweet banana.
08:54And they sell them.
08:55They literally climb up in the mountains during the early part of the day.
08:59They get back down from the mountains in the afternoon and sell everything they've bought or they've caught in the mountains, which is amazing.
09:07You're talking about fresh.
09:08It doesn't get more fresh than this.
09:10And so, they also sell things like samosas that they make.
09:13They fill them with lentils.
09:16And let me tell you something, you guys.
09:17The drive through Ethiopia is just breathtaking.
09:19I was like, am I in Switzerland?
09:21Like, what's happening?
09:22It's so beautiful.
09:24And these tribes, they seem so happy to be living in this beautiful land untouched by civilization or human hands like we have in the West.
09:32And they just do their own thing out here.
09:34They don't pay rent.
09:35They don't know what's going on in politics.
09:37They're just living.
09:39And it's just beautiful to witness.
09:41I feel like I've taken a lot of that, you know, advice for myself to just live.
09:47We were never meant to be so stressed out all day long with all this information that we have, that we live on in the West.
09:54We were just supposed to live.
09:56We were just supposed to live and enjoy the beautiful world that God created.
10:01And I learned that the most while traveling through Ethiopia.
10:14This is awesome.
10:15Nice.
10:16Nice catch.
10:17Nice catch.
10:18This is terrifying.
10:19It's a cool shot.
10:20This place, please, please.
10:21This is where you belong everyone.
10:23This is where you belong.
10:24Right back in the Africa.
10:25And enjoy the landscape.
10:26The food, the nature.
10:27The culture.
10:28Culture.
10:29That's where you belong, right back in the African.
10:31Come and enjoy the landscape, the food, the nature, the culture.
10:36The culture.
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10:42It's so beautiful.
10:49We're still in South?
10:51This car fell off the side of the freaking...
10:58We're driving around a really steep mountain.
11:01We're driving on it, it's like really steep, you know?
11:05Scary.
11:07We're driving back north.
11:11We're driving back north.
11:13We're still in South Ethiopia, but we're in South Ethiopia right now.
11:17Back towards the beach.
11:19It's a myth.
11:22Maybe Jesus is strong
11:26it takes place
11:28willing
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11:31we're giving Exactly
11:33It's so beautiful
11:39We're in South singer
11:41But even though we're like
11:44we're kind in, you know?
11:46It's giving Switzerland.
12:05You know what I mean?
12:08Switzerland, the country.
12:09Switzerland, no, no.
12:10You know how Netflix is, I guess.
12:12Yeah, I should just get a little clip from here.
12:15You're basically selling the same stuff, right?
12:18Yeah.
12:19Onions, potatoes, ginger, lemon, orange.