Taku Kemuyama spends four days in Ethiopia's Konso region with a local guide named Asha, visiting Doka village and learning about daily life. He sees traditional houses where women sleep in the kitchen and men sleep outside, attends an Orthodox Christian festival with multiple tribes, and tries locally brewed beer.
Hello, this is Taku Kemuyama. This is day 2 in Ethiopia, in Konso, the villages of UNESCO. And I'm going to the village right now with this guy, Asha. Hello, nice to meet you. This way? Okay, left side. And we met in the restaurant last night when I was having dinner. He talked to me Konnichiwa, so we started like that. And now he is giving me a guide. So we are going to what village? Called Doka village. And you said like all tribes have own language, right? Of course, yeah. How to say hello in this? You are taking us? No, this is me. For you, okay? Yeah. You are taking yourself now? You can see. You are taking yourself? Yeah, like this. Yes, yeah. Hadene? Yes. Where are you going? Hadene. Hadene. Hello. We are going to the village. You discover something? Maybe. I want to. You are a student? I'm a student, yeah. College student. College student. College or university? University, yeah. Thank you. From Japan. Japan. Nice to meet you. Yes, yes, yes, I meet you. Okay, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Okay, see you. You see you. Thank you. Bye-bye. So I came to the village here. Interesting houses. This is the house. It's small entrance. And so this is your house? Can I see a bed? Yeah, why not? Thank you. So this is for chicken, the kitchen. Oh, this is kitchen? Yeah. Wow. Mostly in our tribe, uh-huh, they can sleep with the kitchen. Oh, women sleep with the kitchen here? Oh, okay, okay. Where does men sleep then? The man is sleeping here, and then there, there. Oh, outside? Wait, men sleep outside? Yeah, otherwise the young man, they can sleep here. Even when I'm coming here, I can sleep in storage. Oh, you sleep in the storage? What is this house then? Oh, can I enter? Yeah, thank you. Wow, you study here? Hello, how are you? Ah, okay, this is your room. Wow, alphabet. Oh yeah, I'm fine. So we are heading to the next village, but so many children is following us. Is this space— this is stadium. Stadium? Yeah, football. Every Sunday they have a wedding here. Wedding, wedding, and then playing football. Oh really? Traditional dancing. Wow, that's so cool. Hello! This is the entry of the next village. Interesting sports here. So it's played like this. Yes, view from the village. Wow, pretty. The next day, church. Is everyone is Christian here? Yeah, most of them. Orthodox. Orthodox. So the people come from all tribes around here. It's like 5 kinds of tribes. We had the festival in the church and now we are going to drink a local beer. Drink a local beer. Okay, let's go. Oh, here. Okay, let's go. Nice and best, just local beer here. Best local beer here. Oh, we got the beer. Is this beer? Ah, it's a beer. It was very good tasting. Is it good? Very good. So I got the beer in the interesting— oh my God. It's interesting taste.
