Orissa, South Eastern Coastal province of India is the land of 62 Primitive Tribes and altogether they constitute 23% of total population of Orissa. This tribe inhabits the eastern ghat hill range which runs in the north south directions. Among them most important are Kondh, Bonda, Gadaba, Didayi, Dhuruba and Paroja in south part and Santals,Juanga,Mankedia, Gond and Bhunjia in the north part of Orissa.

All theses tribes have their own original lifestyle with rich in culture. They have their own traditional social organization, Village & housing pattern, colorful costume, ornamentation, Marriage system, religion & belief, music & dance and fairs & festivals.

In the modern worlds, to see this type of unique and primitive lifestyle “ACE Expedition India Tours and Travels, Bhubaneswar,offers Orissa Tribal Tours to all these tribal villages, their weekly market and tribal fairs & festivals .In this type of tour visitors, photographers, anthropologist really explore the tribal & ethnic culture and their life style of 5000 years before and enjoy their traditional music, dance and many more primitive activities.

In this type of tour can be planed either in South part areas like Baliguda,Barakhama,Tumudibandh,Belghar,Chatikona,Kakirguma,Koraput, Machhkund,Onnukadelli,Kunduli,Nandapur,Gupteswar,Baligaon,Nugaon,Kundura,Kotpada, or in north west areas of Orissa like Keonjhar, Jashipur, Khiching, Gonasika, Balangir, Bhawanipatna and Nuapara. Or both north & south part of Orissa covering different type of tribal villages for different type of tribe and their weekly tribal market which is the most important social organization from primitive time where we still find barter system in many tribal market. Tribal market is not only a place for transaction, but also a place for meeting the friends and relatives and spending some time with them after a gap of time normally a week. Mostly whatever commodities are bought and sold are basically agricultural product, forest product, their colorful clothing & ornaments, fish and natural liquor.

As all these tribes are animist, it is believed in the Orissa Tribal society that liquor is a religious offering to the god and goddess. Liquor and meat is also offered to the bad spirit to protect from different diseases. In this type of tribal and cultural tour of Orissa somebody can see the different type of family rituals related with birth of baby, first menstruation of girls, marriage ceremony, and ritual for recovering from different diseases. During the time of visiting villages somebody can see their housing style, different household things inside houses, daily activities of ladies like cooking their traditional meals, preparation & consumption of liquor, taking care of children, making their traditional crafts, leaf plates, activities of men & children and many more common activities of village which are really fascinating for every visitor.

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