Our next West Africa expedition will be officially launched - very shortly - with a new blog over on Wordpress.
One River. Two Borders. Three Countries.
Watch this space…
Jason Florio & Helen Jones-Florio
Expedition Leaders
A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey
Image © Jason Florio
‘Your Experience’ Magazine - Matt Smith and the guys over at Gambia Experience/Serenity Holidays - have used one of my photo’s, from our 930km walk, in their May 2012 edition of the magazine.
Image © Helen Jones-Florio 2009
Kunta Kinteh Island (formally, James Island), The Gambia, West Africa
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Random road shots: The Alkalo (village chief), Dam Sallah, and the village elders come to meet the team - Kerr Sat Maram, The Gambia, West Africa
Image © Jason Florio
A Short Walk in the Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey
I’m in the middle of writing the book (long overdue!) based on A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - our 930km African odyssey - and I’m almost at the end of our journey. The last day was a particularly tough one - the cart wheel coming off three times was only part of a nightmare of an extremely long and frustrating day.
Here is Adama, the mechanic from Makasutu Culture Forest, doing his best to secure the wheelback onto to the cart again so that we can make the remaining few miles home. Janneh, Samba, Momadou and myself (Flo is taking the photo - heavy work, holding that camera, eh, Flo) transfer our gear, from the cart to the truck, to lighten the load, in an effort to move faster on the last leg of the walk…wishful thinking.
More on the book soon…
Image © Jason Florio - Serrekunda, The Gambia
Random road shots: Almost the end of the journey - Helen Jones-Florio on The Barra-Banjul Ferry - across the River Gambia
Image © Jason Florio - A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey
Random roadshots: Jason Florio - Sunset & Baobab Trees, James Island, Juffereh, The Gambia, West Africa
Image © Helen Jones-Florio 2009
Random Road Shots:
Gambian boy with feather in his hair
Taken whilst on ‘A Short Walk in The Gambian Bush - a 930km African odyssey’ - 2009 - The Gambia, West Africa
Image © Jason Florio
‘Silafando’ - Award-winning portraits of village chiefs, ‘Alkalos’, and elders by Jason Florio
Taken whilst on a 930km walk around the small West African country of The Gambia - 2009
