CALENDAR 2010 TransAfrica: Great Expeditions and Special Trips

Here you find programs of Great Expeditions and Special trips for 2010. Departures to Ghana, Togo, Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Ivory Coast where you can participate in beautiful West African Festivals.


Single departure travels Departure Arrival

BISSAU CARNIVAL

 

Mali - Senegal - Guinea Conakry - Guinea Bissau • 11 days

A real african experience in a country untouched by tourism, very rich in wild nature with his savannas and forests, and with interesting populations which still have their traditions dating from centuries.

The adventure starts in Mali, but it is mostly focused on Guinea and Guinea Bissau.

The highlight: the carnival of Bissau. A lively atmosphere of “fiesta” with a magic mixture of African and Portuguese music, masks and dancing crowd in the colourful street of old Bissau…

 

Tour leader: Alberto Nicheli

Great Expedition

description

 

 

Bamako

in

07/02/2010

 

 

Dakar

out

17/02/2010

 

 

Akwasidae


Ghana • 13 days

 

One trip dedicated to Ghana, one of the most interesting countries in West Africa, to participate to the great Akwasidae festival in Kumasi, the kingdom of Ashanti.

An extraordinary occasion to go deep in African rhythms and colours.

 

Special Trip

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Accra

from

 

17/3/2010

 

 

Accra

till

 

29/3/2010

Masks Festival

 

Mali and Burkina faso • 13 days

Two weeks with the opportunity to explore two of the most interesting country of West Africa, and to focus on masks, as they are an occasion to celebrate and to communicate, in different regions, for all the traditional ethnic people who live there: in particular Bambara, Dogon, Nunuma e Bwaba.

Special Trip

 

description

 

Bamako

 

from

 

27/3/2010

 

Bamako

 

till

 

8/4/2010


Dipo Initiation and Akwasidae


Ghana • 10 days

 

One trip dedicated to Ghana, one of the most interesting countries in West Africa, to participate to one of the most beautiful initiation ceremony in Africa, celebrated in the Krobo region, famous for its beads, and to the great Akwasidae festival in Kumasi, the kingdom of Ashanti.

An extraordinary occasion to go deep in African rhythms and colours.

 

Special Trip

description

 

Accra

from

 

24/4/2010

 

 

Accra

till

 

3/5/2010

Several departures travels Departure Arrival

Only Mali

Mali • 10 days

Twelve days to discover deeply thes wonderful countries, among the richest and most interesting of West Africa. From North, where live populations still not very well known, to South where it is possible to find evidences of colonial past, to the center, the realm of Ashanti, with the possibiliity of attending to the great traditional festival Akwasidae and voodoo celebrations.

 

Special Trip

 

description

 

Bamako

 

in

 

 

12 / 02 / 2010

26 / 03 / 2010

23 / 04 / 2010

18 / 06 / 2010

30 / 07 / 2010

06 / 08 / 2010

13 / 08 / 2010

03 / 09 / 2010

01 / 10 / 2010

29 / 10 / 2010

26 / 11 / 2010

17 / 12 / 2010

24 / 12 / 2010

 

 

Bamako

 

out

 

 

21 / 02 / 2010

04 / 04 / 2010

02 / 05 / 2010

27 / 06 / 2010

08 / 08 / 2010

15 / 08 / 2010

22 / 08 / 2010

12 / 09 / 2010

10 / 10 / 2010

07 / 11 / 2010

05 / 12 / 2010

26 / 12 / 2010

02 / 01 / 2011

 

 


GHANA - TOGO - BENIN

• 12 days

 

Twelve days to discover deeply theses wonderful countries, among the richest and most interesting of West Africa . From North, where live populations still not very well known, to South where it is possible to find evidences of colonial past, to the center, the realm of Ashanti, with the possibility of attending to the great traditional festival Akwasidae and voodoo celebrations.

 

Special Trip

 

For more informations: transafrica@transafrica.biz

Lome / Accra

 

in

17 / 03 / 2010

28 / 04 / 2010

21 / 07 / 2010

04 / 08 / 2010

01 / 09 / 2010

13 / 10 / 2010

24 / 11 / 2010

31 / 12 / 2010

 

 

Lome / Accra

 

out

26 / 03 / 2010

07 / 05 / 2010

30 / 07 / 2010

13 / 08 / 2010

10 / 09 / 2010

22 / 10 / 2010

03 / 12 / 2010

09 / 01 / 2011

 

 


The country of Ashanti

Ghana • 8 days

A week in a country which is full of interesting evidences of the portoguese colonization and offers extraordinary occasions to plunge in the folklore of his populations.

Departures organized to participate at the Akwasidae Festival of Ashanti in Kumasi.

 

 

Special Trip

 

description

 

Accra

from

 

 

15 / 03 /2010

26/ 04 / 2010

07 / 06 /2010

19/ 07 / 2010

30/ 08 / 2010

11/ 10 / 2010

22/ 11 / 2010

Accra

till

 

 

22/03/2010

03/05/2010

14/06/2010

26/07/2010

06/09/2010

18/10/2010

29/11/2010

Journey through the magic

 

Togo - Benin • 8 days

Descrizione Viaggio

One week in two countries on the Guinea Gulf, both little but full of interest and very rich from a cultural point of view, particolarly for those who want to have a first contact with Western Africa.

On this trip we will meet fetish priests, healers and oracles; we will attend fire dances, initiation rites, ancient ceremonies and witness participants in trances. Voodoo has its origins in these countries and in this part of the world the people’s practices are still authentic.

Special Trip

 

description

 

Lome

 

in

 

 

06 / 03 / 2010

03 / 04 / 2010

14 / 08 / 2010

30 / 10 / 2010

04 / 12 / 2010

 

 

Lome

 

out

 

 

13 / 03 / 2010

10 / 04 / 2010

21 / 08 / 2010

06 / 11 / 2010

11 / 12 / 2010

 

 

 


Guinea


Mali - Guinea - Senegal • 16 days

 

The adventure starts in Mali but it is mostly focused in Guinea Conakry: the Samory trail, the experience of lianas bridge, the Peul of Fouta Djalon and Toma living near the border with Sierra Leone and Liberia . Finally in Senegal to meet Bassari and Bedick, last animist tribes in the country. Back to Mali for a cruise on th Manantali manmade lake.

Great Expedition

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Bamako

in

05/ 03 / 2010

02/ 04 / 2010

19/ 11 / 2010

 

Bamako

out

20/03/2010

17/04/2010

03/12/2010

NEW: From Sahel to Ocean

 

Mali - Ivory Coast • 15 days

 

Finally Ivory Coast is again open to travellers, after a time of social instability. We cross the country from north to south: the Senufo living around Korhogo, Man with its shops of antiquities and lianas bridges, Yamoussoukro, with the unusual cathedral, and last but not the least the beaches between ocean and forest.

Great Expedition

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Bamako

 

in

 

06/ 03 / 2010

Abidjan

 

out

 

20/03 2010


To go to the past catalogue of TransAfrica travels    

From 1985, always with the same enthusiasm.