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Tour Details
Dates
2 - 17 Jan 2009
No. of days
16 days
Cost
From approx. $11,995
Activity Level
Moderately Active
Lecturer
Professor Emeritus Alex Horne
Tour Operator
Travel Dynamics International
Join Professor Emeritus Alex Horne and explore the fabled city of Timbuktu, as well as the Grand Mosque of Djenne, the city of Mopti and the Dogon region. Chartered flights will transport us from Bamako to the Sahel and into Timbuktu itself, bypassing arduous drives.
Aboard the 34-guest Callisto, cruise down the Gambia and Saloum rivers of Senegal and Gambia. Be surrounded by the villages and wildlife of the Kiang West National Park and the Makasutu Culture Forest and explore the cultural and natural history of this rarely-visited region. Conclude in Dakar, with its markets, museums and historical ties to the slave trade.
About the Lecturer
Professor Emeritus Alex Horne was in the Department
of Civil & Environmental Engineering for thirty two
years at U.C. Berkeley and introduced the now popular
graduate discipline of Ecological Engineering. His
expertise is in solving water pollution and water resource
management problems around the world and his work
continues as a consultant with many recent projects in
the U.S. as well as Spain, the Gulf of Arabia and China.