2 trips covering Southern and Northern Mali with
Mali’s best music and dance festival against the serene backdrop of the Niger River.
Feb 4 - To Have arrived in Bamako. Transfer to Segou.
Feb 5 - Festival Sur Le Niger, Segou
Feb 6 - Festival Sur Le Niger
Feb 7 - Segou to Djenne for one of West Africa’s most colourful markets before the Grand Mosque of Djenne.
Feb 8 - .Market day Djenne, then on to the Dogon Country
Feb 9 - Dogon Country trekking, empahisis on landscape photography.
Feb 10 - Dogon country trek, spectacular journey out of the Dogon country. Camping en route to Gao
Feb 11 - Continue to Gao. Colourful market prot on the banks of the river Niger
Feb 12 - Drive into the desert to Aguelhoc.
Feb 13 - Rest in the family camp outside Aguelhoc, visit the town and walk out to the rock paintings. Welcome meswi meal.
Feb 14 - Short journey to the guelta, a spring in the mountains of the Adrar des Iforas with Azure blue pools of cool water amidst the black granite rock. Camp the night.
Feb 15 Back to Aguelhoc for the evening..
Feb 16 - Now that we have spent some days with the people of AGUELHOC we have a special photographic day on portrait photography and capturing people in their environment.
Feb 17 - Goodbye to Aguelhoc, journey through the spectacular scenery of Tillimadelallaine mountains to the sacred berber site of Essouk.
Feb 18 - Journey on back to Gao
Feb 19 - Gao to Mopti
Feb 20 - Mopti to Bamako
Feb 21 - End of Tour
South Mali + Festival
24 Jan - 08 Feb 2010
Bamako - Djenne - Niger River to Timbuktu
Dogon Trek - Festival Sur Le Niger - Bamako
The Dogon Country
South Mali trip + Festival
24 Jan - 08 Feb 2010
Bamako - Djenne - Niger River to Timbuktu
Dogon Trek - Festival Sur Le Niger - Bamako
Special photography trip
Festival + Desert Safari
04 - 21 Feb 2010
Bamako - Festival Sur Le Niger - Djenne - Homboroi + elephants - Desert safari -
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festival on the niger
ABOUT
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Special photography trip
Festival + Desert Safari
04 - 23 Feb 2010
Bamako - Festival Sur Le Niger - Djenne - Homboroi + elephants - Desert safari
Jonathan Perugia has been a professional photographer for over fifteen years. His photojournalism and travel photography have been published in newspapers, travel books and magazines worldwide. His travel photography has taken him to Shanghai, Las Vegas, Bali, California, Tuscany, and Morocco.
He has shot for the UN and Save the Children, covered the Asian Tsunami and conflicts in Indonesia.
This passion for photography and its power to move and change people has inspired him to teach. He has organised projects and exhibitions with street children in Jakarta, kids affected by conflict in Borneo, and Burmese journalists in Bangkok. He has held photography workshops at a yoga centre in Crete, in the Cotswolds and one-to-one classes in London and New York.
Jonathan makes photography fun and accessible, and encourages participants to experiment and develop their own style.
This trip is open to photographers of all standards.
with a special itinerary designed around photography
(see Festival + Desert Safari below)
