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| TRANSAFRICA SPECIAL TRIPS 2010 | TransAfrica Special Trips Calendar |
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Knowing how to travel well is a special skill: it entails exploring, first-hand, the culture and spirit of the peoples that you visit, and brings you into direct contact with their customs and traditions.
Special Trips are directed by Roberto Cerea. |
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Akwasidae
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.
For more informations: transafrica@transafrica.biz
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Accra from
17/3/2010
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Accra till
29/3/2010
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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.
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Bamako
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27/3/2010
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Bamako
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8/4/2010
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Dipo Initiation and Akwasidae
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.
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Accra from
24/4/2010
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Accra till
3/5/2010
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| Several departures travels | Departure | Arrival |
Only Mali
Mali • 10 days
Ten 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.
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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
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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
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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.
For more informations: transafrica@transafrica.biz
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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
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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
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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.
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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 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.
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Lome
in 06 / 03 / 2010 03 / 04 / 2010 14 / 08 / 2010 30 / 10 / 2010 04 / 12 / 2010
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Lome
out 13 / 03 / 2010 10 / 04 / 2010 21 / 08 / 2010 06 / 11 / 2010 11 / 12 / 2010
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| To go to the past catalogue of TransAfrica travels | ||
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From 1985, always with the same enthusiasm.
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