Southern Ethiopia, the Rift Valley system is another wondrous region where many other attractions are sited. The six Rift Valley crater lakes are home to a large number of bird and marine life. They are also a paradise for nature and water lovers. National parks with their exotic birds, animals and plant life add to the beauty of the Rift Valley region. Salt lakes, active volcano sites and caravan routes still number among Ethiopia's great attractions in the Rift Valley.

Further south is the Omo Valley with its popular ethnic treasures. This is where about 50% of Ethiopia's ethnic groups live: the Konso with their terraced agriculture and rituals; the Mursi with their clay lip plates and barbarian life style; the Hamer with their bull-jumping ceremony, which young men must experience in order to qualify for adulthood; and the Karo with their body painting and adornment. Here unusual traditions such as dance, music and rituals from birth to marriage and burial are still observed in their genuine and original forms.

Although relatively large, Arbore is far more rustic and unaffected than many similarly size towns in south Omo, in common with their linguistically and culturally affiliated Tsemai neighbors, the Arbore migrated to their present homeland from konso perhaps two centuries ago. Because they have ancestral and cultural links to konso and the pastoralists of the the surroubding lowlands, the Arbor traditionally played an important role as middlemen in trade between the Omo River and the Konso Highlands.The town of Arbore lies in an area where several tribal boundaries coverage. And because the Arbore people routinely intermarry with other ethnic groups. It is also inhabited a substantial number of hamer and even Borena women- adding a cosmopolitan feel to the worthwhile Saturday market.