Ethiopia’s Omo Valley | Africa’s Last Frontier, National Geographic Magazine: Mursi Kids Line Up to Beg on Unfinished Highway into the Omo Valley

There are only dirt roads through this area, but a paved highway is being built (you can see it to the right in this photograph). The roads right now are being used as the biggest sidewalk in the world. But kids are already practicing for handouts for all the cars these roads will bring. They stand in groups with hand made stilts and body paint waiting for the one or two cars that will come thru on the track next to the new road to get a few pennies from tourists.