BISSAU CARNIVAL

Mali, Senegal, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau, Bijagos,

Departure: Bamako 07/02/2010 - Arrival: Dakar 07/02/2010

Category: Great Expedition
Tour Leader Alberto Nicheli

• 11 days in Mali, Senegal, Guinea Conaky, Guinea Bissau
• overnights in hotels and camps

A real “ethnographic raid” in one of the least visited regions of West Africa ending with the most syncretic of the carnivals…

Alberto Nicheli , the founder of TransAfrica will lead this 11 days unique expedition fording rivers, driving remote tracks, camping on island to discover unknown sites, villages, traditional chiefs, and spectacular ancestor's ceremonies:

- Mali : canyon and rocks that hide adobe Malinke village in the south western corner of the country, at the border of Guinea and Senegal .

- Senegal : Bedik Mountains and the last animiste tribes.

- Guinea : Bassari sacred villages.

- Bijagos archipelago: secrete oceanic island, forests, birds, white beaches, hidden villages where life remain in the pure African style, matriarchal queens, rituals, sacred masks…

Ending with: “Carnaval de 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…

Group of 13 to 16 participants, each in half dbl: 2.133 Euro

Group of 6 to 12 participants, each in half double: 2.279 Euro

extra charge for sgl room: 215 Euro

Full board from the breakfast of the second day till the breakfast of the last day

The prices don't include the international flight from and to the country of origin

For more informations: transafrica@transafrica.biz