We made another attempt this morning at going to the markets to food shop. We went from hut to hut, seeing what people had in the small town of Turmi, we managed to get sweet potatoes, carrots and lentils.

We left the town and drove for about two hours to visit the tribe of Hammer. I had been feeling a bit queasy all morning so I decided to stay on the truck. I could see them all perfectly well from there anyway.

After the Hammer tribe we stopped in the middle of nowhere to have lunch. There were huge ant hills everywhere and the ground was covered in pretty white flowers. As we were starting our lunch, out of the beautiful landscape, came a tribesman holding a big automatic rifle. A few people were a bit worried, I however, asked Daster to ask our new friend if he minded if I had my picture taken with him.

Daster took a few pictures of us and after we had lunch we gave him all the leftover food. A few other people paid him for pictures and then when we were about the leave he demanded more money and got a bit nasty, not what you want from a guy with a gun at all. I did think to myself after we drove away, would you want him any other way? It would be a bit less real if he was all smiles and sunshine.

We drove away through more beautiful scenery and came to the banks of the Omo river, which was a lovely shade of brown, almost like flowing chocolate. Most of us went to visit the tribe across the river. To do this we had to clamber a little way down to the boats and then we had to climb on the muddiest boats I've ever seen. We slipped and slide everywhere and I nearly lost one of my thongs under the boat. It was only a short ride across the river and we got off and then had to climb up a dusty cliff face, with only a very steep track to guide us. It was unbelievably hot and we were all very thankful that Daster took us to a hut which amazingly had cold drinks. We sat there for about half an hour, before we walked about twenty minutes to go see another tribe.

We walked across fields which were full of bleating goats, with striking mountains in the background. A place completely untouched by the modern age. We got to the village and many of them had not seen white people before and some of them, especially the children were afraid of us.

The tribe treated us to some traditional dancing and some of the girls wanted to dance with Rachel's David, which was really cool. We walked around and were shown how the tribe lives, although it was a great experience, it was pretty intense and a bit bittersweet. All the time I was walking around the village I had a small child attached to me, begging for water, which I couldn't give him. If I did give him water, every child in the village would be all over me. That part of it was pretty horrible, but when you're on an adventure you take the good with the bad.

We walked back to the boat and slipped and slid all the way down the cliff. We got into the boats and went back across the river, on the way out of the boat, I slipped and landed on the muddy side of the boat. Poor awesome shorts.

We walked back to the truck and headed off to our next campsite. We travelled for about an hour and pitched our tents between some random huts, which looked like a lodge under construction. As soon as we arrived, more tribes people started showing up and were watching us cook. We had bought a goat from one of the tribe and one of the tribesman was gutting it nearby. I decided not to have goat, as last time I had it, I was sick for 3 weeks! It was my groups turn to cook and we were making spaghetti and all of them watching us made me feel a bit uncomfortable. I had to make it with veggies as there wasn't really any meat available as yet. It was the hardest cooking job of my life as there were millions of flying bugs around about the size of Christmas beetle. They kept flying and landing in the pot as well as flying down my shirt! The spaghetti was actually a big hit and the sauce was really nice.

After dinner we went to bed, I took off my bra and about a thousand dead beetles clattered to the floor on the tent. I managed to fall asleep, even though I had a giant rock jammed in my back, which was under the tent. I really think I can sleep through anything right now.