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Rising in the highlands south-west of the capital of Addis Ababa, the Omo River courses south for almost 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) but never reaches the sea. It is the sole feeder of Lake Turkana, East Africa’s fourth largest lake, which the river enters just north of the Kenya border.
As it tumbles off the escarpment, the Omo passes from an Afro-alpine environment and rain forest on into savannah country, and finally into searing desert lands. Through the millenia its flood-swol-len waters have cut stupendous gorges Wild game roam in abundance on both banks, while strange and colourful birds dart in and out of the lush vegetation.
Reckoned by locationasts to be one of the Africa’s premier locations for the sport of white water river rafting, its early fury takes it through gorges hundreds of metres deep and over formidable cataracts before it later snakes more peacefully amidst
dense jungles and finally across the colourful desert terrain. Its waters boil with fish and the huge shapes of crocodile and hippo.
Along this southern stretch of the Omo, far away from any sort of ‘civilization’, indigenous peoples such as the Bume and the Karo practise a combination of cattle-keeping and flood-retreat agriculture, which has replaced what was once – as little as several decades ago – pure pasto-ralism.
