Trips
Overland Trips: 2-4 people, 3 weeks
Sahara From UK 2 Timbuktu Nov/Dec
West Africa From Mali 2 Cameroon Feb.
Small Group trips: 4-12 people, 2 weeks
Mali Tuareg Festival Safari Dec
Mali Festival in the Desert Jan
+ Photography Trip + Desert Safari Jan/Feb
Cameroon Kingdom At The End Of The Road March/April Senegal Saint Louis Jazz Festival May
Mali Other Programmed Dates Oct 2010
Bespoke Trips - I can organise trips to my destination countries at any time. Below are the trips I currently have programmed. Please contact me for more information
Morocco Marrakech, Atlas Mountains and desert Oct 2010
Malawi/Zambia Lake Of The Stars And Victoria Falls Oct 2010
Cameroon Dzanga Sangha Gorilla Trek Nov 2010
Senegal Cruise Senegal Oct-May
Overland trips: 2-4 people
Nov/Dec
From Here 2 Timbuktu London to Timbuktu, Tunisia-
Leaving London in Toyota Landcruisers, my season begins with the mythical journey to Timbuktu. We leave the gloom of pending winter, drive across France to Marseilles, take the ferry to Tunisia and onto the Algerian border. From here we will take an Algerian Tuareg guide to take us across the desert through some of the most impressive landscapes of the Sahara, before being met at the Mali border by my Tuareg guides who will take us on to their community of Aguelhoc.
We will join up with the Tuareg Xmas Festival trip for a From Here 2 Timbuktu sponsored mini Festival, 4x4 and camel exploration of the Adrar Des Iforas mountains to the ancient Tuareg site of Essouk. This will be followed by one of the larger Tuareg festival gatherings which pop up at this time of year - hopefully either The Festival of Camels at Tessalit or The Festival Téneré. These are authentic Tuareg festivals and therefore hard to programme in too far in advance because they are not arranged for the tourist agenda. But we keep our ears to the ground, we have the contacts and there is always a party somewhere.
Go To Tuareg Xmas Festival Trip
February
From Mali 2 Cameroon Dakar to Douala, Senegal-Mali-Niger-Cameroon
From the coast at Dakar in Senegal we will travel 4000 km along the course of the Niger River, through the Sahel cultures of Mali Niger and northern Cameroon, from where we will travel through the gamut of Cameroon’s terrain - desert to sahel to savannah to highlands and finally the equatorial forest back on the coast at Limbe. This trip will also include a game safari in Senegal and time with my Tuareg comminuity of Aguelhoc in the Sahara and Esu, the kingdom at the end of the road in in the highlands of Cameroon.
Small group trips.
Christmas/New Year Mali
From Bamako 2 Tuareg Xmas Festival
This is a very special, unique trip. It takes you deep into the Sahara of northern Mali. Our guides are a family of Tuaregs from a desert community which is very close to my heart. It includes a 3 day Niger River trip to Timbuktu, a 4x4 desert safari, a From Here 2 Timbuktu sponsored xmas Tuareg festival and a 4 day camel trek through dunes rising up mountains of granite, azure blue spring lakes, sandy plains, to arrive at the Oasis of Essouk for New year. Words cannot describe this trip adequately.
December/January Mali
From Bamako 2 Festival in the Desert
A trip to the famous and spectacular Festival in the Desert, including the World Heritage city of Djenne, a 4 day Dogon country trek and 3 days on the river Niger to Timbuktu.
January/February Mali
From Bamako 2 Festival on the Niger
A fantastic music and dance Festival celebrating the full diversity of Malian culture in Segou, the former capital of the ancient Bambara kingdom on the banks of the Niger River. The festival ends a trip which Includes the World Heritage city of Djenne, a 3 day Niger River trip to Timbuktu. a 4 day Dogon country trek,
Septmeber to June Senegal
A touch of African style and luxury: a 6 day Senegal River Cruise on the magnificent and mythic Bou El Mogdad from the desert through Wolof, Tukolor and Maure cultures to the Parc d’Oiseaux de Djoudj, one of the world’s most important breeding grounds for Flamingos Pelicans and migrating birds. The trip includes time in Saint Louis, the former capital of French West Africa, and Dakar, the vibrant modern capital of Senegal with an optional additional 3 days on the beaches of La Petite Côte. A great introduction to Africa with very good hotels, great food and Senegal Jazz night-life. If you want the buzz and style of Africa without the roughing it this trip is for you!
March 2011 Cameroon
From Douala 2 The kingdom at the end of the road
Primate conservation, wild gorilla trek and the kingdom at the end of the road
September - May Cameroon
From Douala 2 Dzanga Sanga Gorilla
A journey deep into the equatorial forest of south Cameroon to Dzanga Sangha reserve in Central African Republic. Here are the only habituated group of gorillas in West Africa. Aslo in the forest clearings we will see forest elephant and buffalo. We spend time with the extraordinary people of this region - the Ba’Aka “pygmy” - who will take us on a forest net hunt. Beach holiday to finish off.
May 2010 Senegal
From Dakar 2 Saint Louis Jazz Festival
Dakar, Saint Louis Jazz Festival and Senegal River cruise from the Atlantic to the Sahara desert.
October Malawi/Zambia
From Lilongwe 2 Festival of the Lake of the Stars Malawi and Zambia
Festival trip to the beautiful Lake Malawi including big game safari in Zambia and the highland plateau of Nyika in Malawi, and of course the wonderful Festival of the Lake of the Stars.
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