Alison M. Jones: Tours

All images © Alison M. Jones

Upcoming Scheduled Trips

New! “Waters of Africa, Part Three: Zimbabwe and Botswana” in Summer 2007. JOIN ME in discovering the shores of the Zambezi River and the highlands of Zimbabwe. We will canoe and hike amongst wildlife with some of the best guides of all Africa, visit ruins and, in so doing, support some of the most beautiful wilderness of Africa in its time of political stress. Then we’ll move on to Botswana to spend time with the Bushmen living their lives in its full traditional glory. The itinerary is being set, but it will be a trip for just eight experienced safari-goers. immediately for more details.
Mt. Kilimanjaro: There are spaces available to climb with groups going in 2006 and 2007. Read about my 2003 Kili Climb, which I did with Jackson, a great Maasai friend, as a fundraiser for the Mara Conservancy.

Recently Completed Trips

“Waters of Africa, Part Two: Ethiopia and Kenya” Read about this Summer 2005 continuation of my photographic investigation I’ve pursued for years. This followed a “Waters of Africa, Part I: Flying Safari from Nairobi to Cape Town” in Summer 2004. For my clients I published a 60-page, customized hard-bound journal with my images from 20 previous safaris and research on water as a precious, yet very threatened, resource. This journal may be reprinted in a soft- bound version. if you would be interested in purchasing a copy.

I Do Custom Itinerary Planning!

There is not enough time or space to detail all the possible trips I could create for you, but if you need ideas, consider:

Fishing and glacier trekking in Argentina’s Patagonia
Trying a horseback or flying safari in Namibia
Cruising Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast
Cruise on a dhow off the Swahili coast of Kenya
Hiking France’s relatively unknown Massif Central
Rafting down the Zambezi after seeing Victoria Falls
Climbing to the 19,341´ summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro

I have done and recommend all of these sojourns! Let me help you get there too!

Y photography has involved extensive traveling for over 30 years, thus I have unusual knowledge of Africa, Latin America, Europe, USA and the Caribbean. I seem to have followed family footsteps. My father’s cousin married a German baron and built a castle in the Namibian desert in 1907. Aunt Bea and Uncle David bought a 15th-century French cottage in the 40’s and returned after the war to paint in the Massif Central. My godfather was Yugoslavian, spooked around the world and settled in Croatia. My sister designed her Caribbean home after traditional sugarcane plantations. I’ve visited and know these places well.

My focus on endangered ecosystems, wildlife and communities has led me on twenty tours of Africa and assignments in Latin America. It has meant living in France, England, Portugal, California and New England and gotten me to drive solo across much of the US and sail New England and Caribbean coasts. And I continue to wander off the beaten track! I am often asked “How can I travel behind the scenes as you do?”

If you would like me to plan your safari or an off-the-beaten-track itinerary, call (212) 861-6961. I now represent several travel consultants whom I know well and have travelled with. My documentary interest in our connections to each other, to the past, and to this earth should assure you that itinerairies my associates and I create will surely yield the greatest reward of travel: new awareness and new friends.

for: Argentina, France, Croatia, St. Croix, Portugal