The Longest Journey of Me My Name is Adimasu Gebeyehu. I was born and grow up in Southern Ethiopia Banna Village in Omo Valley. My overlanding journey started when I was taking care of my goats and cows at 7 years old with my other friends. One day, I was take our cows to Omo River to fetch water for them and for our self. On that day I saw for the first time a car passing through off-road. It was rain, wind and cold day. There was a lot of mud, the car couldn’t move it was in strong mud. We saw him, we were not sure if he was an animal or a human painted white? We paint our bodies to protect from mosquito’s and scare animals. And dress up to show our beauty to others. (Suri Trib) We have never seen a white person before. He asks me and my friends to pull the car out. We helped him and finally he got way out from strong mud. We could not communicate with him. But knew he was very hungry. We bring him to our home to give him food. For the first time I ride on Landcruiser 2h 1988 model. That is when I meet Mr. Chris from France, who sponsored me to finish my school. Once I have done school, I went on university and finally graduated in tourism. Been working as tour guide in different companies for 10 years now. I started my own expedition company 34
over East Africa, been doing a lots off-roading by myself and taking some people with me on adventures. One Day I have got email from in 2016. Mr. Kingsley Holgate, a well-known Land Rover adventure organization to Africa with Kingsley Holgate Foundation-Hope Crosses Many Terrain together with Land Rover. https://kingsleyholgate.com/ He wants to do expedition in Southern Ethiopia to Chew Bahir-Hamer Tribe. They are most friendly tribe. Where a boy to become man, he jump of the bulls. Before jump of bulls, he must be naked and hair shaved. Rubbed body with sand rid any bad luck, rubbed with cow poop to give strength. He must jump over bulls four times show his bravery, strength and agility to get called Maza. Means
