Last Places have designed this trip to northern Nigeria in October 2024 with the objective of getting to know the Hausa people‘s culture. To achieve it, we will visit the emirates of Kano, Zaria and Dutse, where we can admire old Hausa-style adobe palaces as well as meet members of royalty. During this time of […]
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Aug
Aug
Ethnographic trip to Ivory Coast: unknown tribes and traditional ceremonies Ethnographic trip to Ivory Coast to fully explore the country. Culturally speaking, it is one of the richest countries in West Africa. Once, a country ‘spoiled’ by France and the world’s leading cocoa producer. Nowadays, Côte d’Ivoire is reborn from its ashes after a bloody […]
26
Jun
Jun
Ethnographic trip to Mali to get to know different traditional tribes of the country. We will start the trip in Bamako, the chaotic and multi-cultural Malian capital. We will continue along the Niger River to the Bambara tribal area to admire adobe mosques, colonial buildings standing still in time, and the tribes of the region. […]
Ethnographic Trip to Niger: Gerewol Festival and Sudano-Sahelian architecture Ethnographic trip to Niger specially designed to experience the Gerewol Festival, organized by the nomadic Wodaabe herders. The Gerewol is a courtship ceremony that consists of a kind of beauty contest. Its participants are the young Wodaabe, whose objective is to attract the attention of the […]
20
Mar
Mar
Ethnographic trip to Chad in October: Gerewol Festival and Red Arabs Ethnographic trip to Chad in October specially designed to experience the Gerewol Festival of the Peul-Mbororo nomadic tribe. During the month of October, the nomadic Peul-Mbororo shepherds meet in the region of Dourbali, three hours away from the capital city of Chad: Ndjamena. This […]
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Feb
Feb
Trip to Nigeria designed especially to experience the Gerewol Festival. During this trip to Nigeria, we will have the opportunity to witness the Gerewol Festival of a nomadic Mbororo community. For the celebration, the young men will decorate their faces and put on their best clothes with the aim of flirting and attracting young women. […]
15
Jun
Jun
Travel-expedition through one of the most beautiful deserts on the planet: the Ennedi desert in Chad; dunes, rock formations, and hundreds of cave paintings that tell us about a more fertile Sahara and with complex civilizations centuries ago.
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