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Tacazze sunbird on Red hot poker, Bale mountains National park, Ethiopia
Gelada baboon and giant lobelia in Simien Mountains National Park, Northern Ethiopia
Simien wolf (canis simensis) in Bale mountains national park, Ethiopia
Harenna forest, Bale mountains national park, Ethiopia
Gelada baboon family in Simien Mountains National Park, Northern Ethiopia
Vulture flying above Jinbar waterfalls (Jin Bahir Falls), Simien mountains national park, Ethiopia
Ethiopia, Gondar, Debre Birhan Selassie Church. Ancient paintings adorn the interior of this famous church
El Molo fishermen in their dugout canoe on the fringe of the Omo Delta. The El Molo are reputedly Kenyas smallest tribe, a group of nomadic fishermen who fish the Omo delta and Lake turkana
An Ethiopian man wears a headdress made from the skin of a gelada, a unique baboon-like primate that lives at high altitudes in northern Ethiopia
The contrasting leather aprons or skirts of two Nyag atom girls. The skirt on the left is richly decorated with metal and copper beads; the one on the right is embellished with thousands of small
A Karo homestead close the Omo River. The small thatched huts built off the ground are food stores. The Karo are a small tribe living in three main villages along the lower reaches of the Omo River
A Mursi mother and child. The mother shades her shaven head from the sun with a small decorated leather apron.The Mursi speak a Nilotic language and have affinities with the Shilluk
Hamar women dance, sing and blow small tin trumpets during a Jumping of the Bull ceremony. The semi-nomadic Hamar of Southwest Ethiopia embrace an age-grade system that includes several rites of
Karo men excel in body art. They decorate their faces and torsos elaborately using local white chalk, pulverised rock and other natural pigments
An old Dassanech man wearing a traditional lip ornament and earrings. The old practice of piercing the flesh below a mans lower lip for decorative purposes is fast dieing out.The Dassanech people
An unusual braided hairstyle of a Dassanech young man of the Omo River Delta.The Omo Delta of southwest Ethiopia is one of the least accessible and least developed parts of East Africa
A Nyangatom boy catches blood from the artery of a cow in a gourd. The cow is bled by firing an arrow with a very short head into the artery of the cow
A woman of the Mursi tribe. Once married Mursi women pierce their lower lip and stretch it by inserting increasingly large plugs until they can wear a clay lip plate
Hamar men paint themselves with white chalk and ochre and decorate their hair with feathers and leaves prior to a bull -jumping ceremony, a rite of passage to manhood. Ethiopia, Omo Valley
An elder of the Karo tribe rests with his head on his wooden head-rest which protects his elaborate clay hairdo. Every man carries a headrest which doubles as a stool
Display of rugs in a shop in Addis Ababas Merkato, or market
The extinct volcano at Chew Bet in southern Ethiopia has a dark, seasonal lake at the bottom of its deep, steep-sided crater. Borana tribesmen harvest salt there for their livestock
An augur buzzard (Buteo rufofuscus) swoops low in the Gaysay area of the Bale Mountains
Donkeys trample corn to remove the grain in a typical rural setting between Ziway and Butajira. Depending on the availability of animals, a farmer may use ponies, donkeys or oxen for this purpose
A man winnows Teff, a small-grained cereal, with a wooden hayfork.; Teff is grown extensively in Ethiopia and is used to make injera, a fermented, bread-type pancake
The dramatic Awash Falls are situated in the Awash National Park. The huge volume of water from one of Ethiopias largest rivers drops over a series of falls as it enters a large gorge
The minaret of the old mosque at Aysaita, a hot, dusty town, which is the administrative centre of the nomadic Afar people who live in the eastern lowlands of Ethiopia
A large gathering of people at Senbetes livestock market, which is an important weekly market close to the western scarp of the Abyssinian Rift
An attractive woman at Bati market. Situated on top of the western scarp of the Abyssinian Rift, Bati is the largest open-air market in Ethiopia
A woman sells vegetables at Bati market. Situated on top of the western scarp of the Abyssinian Rift, Bati is the largest open-air market in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is a land of vast horizons and dramatic scenery. The weathered mountains in the Ethiopian Highlands exhibit layer upon layer of volcanic material
Fine murals decorate the interior of the rock-hewn church of Yohannes Maequddi, a two-hour walk from Degum on a plateau of the Gheralta Mountains east of Debretsion
Deep in thought, an old man with Orthodox cross in hand rests outside the rock-hewn church of Abune Yemata in the Gheralta Mountains near Guh
Two Mursi men with singular hairstyles play a game of bau as a young boy watches them. Most men possess rifles to protect their families from hostile neighbours
Ethiopia, Painted houses of the Alaba peoples near Kulito
Ethiopia, Lower Omo valley, Key Afir, close up of Tsemay womans traditional goatskin dress ETHIOPIA, Lower Omo valley, Key Afir, weekly market
Ethiopia, Lalibela, Pilgrim at the church of Bet Giyorgis (St. George s) ETHIOPIA, Lalibela, Pilgrim at the Rock-hewn monolithic church of Bet Giyorgis (St)
Ethiopia, Lalibela, Chapel of Bet Danaghel in the courtyard of Bet Maryam (St. Mary s) ETHIOPIA, Lalibela, Chapel of Bet Danaghel in the courtyard of Bet Maryam (St)
Ethiopia, Harar, Street in the old city, Goldsmith shop
Ethiopia, Aksum, Northern Stelae Park, The Great Stelae ETHIOPIA, Aksum, Northern Stelae Park, The Great Stelae believed to be the largest single block of stone that humans have tried to erect
Karo Tribesman, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia Karo Tribesman, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa. The peoples of the Lower Omo Valley are considered to be among the most facinating on the African
Karo Tribesman, body paint (detail), Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia Karo Tribesman, body paint (detail), Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
Colourful beads worn by a woman of the Galeb tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia Colourful beads worn by a woman of the Galeb tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, Africa
Hamer Tribesman, Hamer Tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Turmi, Southern Ethiopia, Hamer Tribesman - detail - Hamer Tribe, Lower Omo Valley, Turmi, Southern Ethiopia
A priest stands outside the rock-hewn church of Abune Yemata in the Gheralta Mountains near Guh Carved into a cliff face with a sheer drop of 800 to 1, 000 feet
Ethiopia, Southwest Ethiopia, Omo River. Sunset on the banks of the Omo River near a Dassanech village. Two dome-shaped granaries are just visible in the trees
