Category: Photography trips

The combined Shelios – GLORIA – Slooh expedition has sent us the first images of totality that, despite everything, they managed to capture!

We're moving on with our photo and video contest 2014. If you have travelled with us during 2014, you can take part by sending your images to concurso@tuareg.com 

As every year, the images are spectacular. Here are some of the photographs entered in this year’s competition that we are sure you will enjoy.

The trip is over, now it's time to process the experience at home.

The group reached Addis Ababa on the 17th. After a day of rest following the final stage in Tigray and discover the unusual churches in the capital of Ethiopia, they boarded their flight home. Many feelings, including climb Erta Ale, need to be fully digested.

Here is a selection of photos and comments from Juancho Pozuelo , a friend and collaborator of Mirada Viajera, the photographer accompanying us on this trip to Ethiopia.

«We are in Kombolcha, you might say the last trace of urban life before heading into the Danakil. The market for Sembete is very colourful and noisy.”

«More than a photography trips is a personal and photographic experience. It is impossible to imagine a better place to take photographs.»

This is how this journey is defined Juancho Pozuelo, the guide and photographer accompanying this trip.

The group has arrived at the Lake Afrera and, after spending the night in a spectacular setting, they headed towards the Erta Ale volcano.

“After seeing the first traces of lava and spending five hours bouncing along a track, we reached Lake Afrera and its salt mines. Tonight we’re sleeping at the exact spot shown in the photo published on 5 November, taking night photographs and bathing in the extremely salty Lake Afrera.”

Last October, we made a special photo trip to the south of Ethiopia, and rounded it off with a visit to the churches of Lalibela.

There are currently only 5 active lava lakes on the planet. This December we travelled to the east of Ethiopia to photograph one of them: the Erta Ale.

See details of our photography route through Ethiopia.

Salt lakes as white as ice, spectacular volcanic eruptions and black lava flows, lakes and geysers painting the surface in a multitude of colours… This is the Danakil, where temperatures reach 50°. The only people able to live here are the Afar pastoralists, who trade in salt extracted from the plain.

The auroras are one of the great natural spectacles visible from our planet. In the northern hemisphere, Finland is certainly one of the best locations, and the best time of year to see the northern lights is late March.

Reasons to choose a photography trip. If photography is one of your hobbies, travelling around Vietnam with your camera calls for a different pace.

The photography trip is designed for you to enjoy taking pictures. Every day we viewed and discussed the day's photos and explored how to improve them, with a professional photographer on hand to guide and advise us throughout.

In October the Arctic prepares for the arrival of winter; an ideal period for observation of The northern lights. We travelled to the island of Spitsbergen aboard the sailing boat Noorderlicht, just before sea ice blocked access.