This is a thoroughly tribal adventure travel trip. In Southern Ethiopia, we travel overland into the depths of the Rift Valley, visiting the amazing lakes, witnessing the wildlife and meeting the local tribal people. A word of warning is necessary here. This is definitely an adventure holiday and you must be aware that we will take you through regions with very poor infrastructure and very few western facilities. Roads can be apsolutely appalling and you should be prepared to forgo your home comforts. But the rewards of this kind of overland travel are immense. We will travel into one of the most unchanged tribal regions in Africa and meet peoples who lifestyles have changed very little in the last two hundred years. At Konzo we will explore the Konzo tribal culture and villages before heading deep into tribal southern Ethiopia towards the Omo Valley. This is a very remote, seldom visited region, which is home to the Hamer, Banna and Arbore people. The bull jumping of the Hama people have become renown in the outside world due to the great BBC series, Tribes featuring Bruce Parry. Unfortunately, unlike Parry, who spent months living with many of these tribes we can only spend four nights in the region, but this is what adventure travel tours should be all about. Travelling Overland allows us to explore regions like this.

Responsible travel is one of our four business principles and on this trip we will take you to an excellent community tourism project in nothern Kenya. The Samburu region is usually associated with an African safari, and of course we will do our Kenya safari in Samburu National Park, which has very prolific African wildlife, including lion, elephant, leopard, the amazingly lovely reticulated giraffe, the lithesome gerenuk and the grevvy Zebra. However, while we are here, we will also stay at the Samburu tribal community project to learn about their culture and way of life.

In terms of wildlife we will also explore the mountainous Bale Nat. Park in search of the Simien Fox and further south in Kenya we will find rhino, buffalo and flamingo in Lake Nakuru National Park. So the trip may not have the big names of the Serengeti or Masai Mara but for wildlife its as good as it gets; hey you have a good chance of seeing the big five!