In the desert of Niger, the Wodaabe tribe have a unique way of meeting a mate
Jan 20, 2011 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, Desert, Discovery, Gerewol, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, jeerewol, jerewol, Niger, nomad, Planeta Humano, raume, Sahel, Timothy Allen, tribe, Wodaabe | 21 Comments »
India … When I went backpacking through South East Asia in the early nineties, myself and a friend got quite into collecting old beads on our travels, a hobby I still have to this very day. Back then, along with the Tibetan Plateau, home of the infamously mysterious Dzi beads, North East India’s Nagaland represented my […]
Dec 21, 2010 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Ao Naga, Chang Naga, Head Hunters, India, Konyak, Konyak Naga, Longwa, Moatsu, Myanmar, Naga, Nagaland, North East, North East Frontier States, north east States, opium, tribal, tribe | 15 Comments »
Central African Republic …It’s the end of our time with the Bayaka and tomorrow we’ll be heading off to Cameroon and then home sweet home to the UK, but before I go I thought I’d leave you with one more picture from our Bayaka jungle home. That’s Mongonjay with his wife and child standing outside […]
May 14, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, Bayaka, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Central African Republic, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, jungle, Planeta Humano, ray of light, ray of sunshine, sunbeam, sunburst, Timothy Allen, tribe | 4 Comments »
Central African Republic …When I was a child I spent quite a lot of time up a certain willow tree in our family’s back garden. There’s a particular kind of comforting solitude that can only be found up a tree. I think it has something to do with the fact that as you sit there, […]
May 02, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, Bayaka, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, bees, blogsherpa, Central African Republic, honey, honey collectors, honey gatherer, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, jungle, Planeta Humano, rope access course, Timothy Allen, tree, tribe, Westonbirt Arboretum | 9 Comments »
Central African Republic …Often, when people seek out jungle dwelling tribes to photograph, the reality of their experience in the field doesn’t quite live up to the expectation they may have initially brought with them en route to their destination. It’s 2009 after all, and the heyday of those kind of cultural expeditions has passed […]
Apr 24, 2009 | Categories:Travel, View the complete Archive | Tags: Africa, Bayaka, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC Human Planet, blogsherpa, Central African Republic, forest spirits, Human PLanet, Human Planet BBC, Planeta Humano, pygmy, Timothy Allen, tribe, water drumming | 1 Comment »
