Dorze Village

The Dorze are a people living in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia, they are famous for the shape of their huts, that recall the structure of a beehive and the face of an elephant. The typical compound of a Dorze family consists of 3 huts, a main hut in the center and two smaller huts on the sides, the Dorze huts are built using only natural materials such as wood, bamboo and enset leaves; around the huts there is a garden where coffee and cotton are grown, there are also numerous false banana plants, the enset.