Hi all

My name is Miranda from Ohio, USA. I and my 12 students from Ohio State University had a very wonderful educational trip to Ethiopia. We did what we intended to do in western and southern Ethiopia. We had stayed 21 days for the entire educational trip. Untouched Ethiopia Tours organized and facilitated all necessary stuffs as they promised to us. Our guide tedy was a very wonderful guide. He knows both places very well. He helped this group very much so as to achieve what we want to. Most of the groups like the western part-very fertile, green but still untouched area. As our guide teddy told the group, this area is a blessed land for coffee plantaion-ethiopians calls it green gold since it is the prime foreign exchange earner for the country. we were also spent good time in Gambella, Bebeka where bebeka coffee plantation-the largest in the country is found; surma (we had a soft trekking), the surma people around kibish, dizi people in maji, Nuer and Anuak tribal people in gam bella, and mizan teferi - admiring a very big forest and views . To sum up, Omo valley safari was also very interesting...you feel you are some hundreds years back which our forefathers had lived...we had a chance to see the bull jumping ceremony, which is a prerequisite  for men in hammer tribal group to get a wife, evangadi night dance were also interesting for us. Well I like the Mursi but they are very reluctant and a bit aggressive if you take a picture without paying 2 birr/photo. This stuff had created a hassle for us while we were in Musri. Needless to say we had a fabulous experience in the hidden treasures of Ethiopia with untouched Ethiopia tours - http://www.untouchedethiopiatours.com,  All in all this short review is just sharing my first but not last experience in Ethiopia with my fellow students. 

Miranda
 

resources : Mirnda Gerberding, Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business