Kotcho and a coffee ceremony in Gurage - On tour with our Ethiopia Specialists

Recently, Mark and his Tesfa team were visiting a village looking to set up homestay tourism. He brought some photos back from his trip: In a field of ‘Enset’ trees - false banana - a team of women were labouring to scrape the pulp from the stems and to mash the thick bulb-like mass at the bottom to make the unique food called ‘kotcho’ (which comes in various forms).

"We were chatting and filming them as they sang and worked until a torrential downpour sent everyone into a local house for a cup of coffee", Mark remembers.

Thank you for these impressions, Mark!