Throughout this safari all meals are included. Dinner in the dining banda, softly lit by candles and hurricane lamps, creates a convivial mood in which you get to know other group members and share the days experiences. Near to the equator the day is but twelve hours long, so we try to be out by first light each day to enjoy, as much as possible, the extraordinary shape and feel of the African scenery.

Day 1/1: Sunday April 20, 2008. Kilimanjaro Workshop members will be met at Kilimanjaro International airport and transferred to the tented lodge where a warm welcome and a light supper await you. After a brief camp experience introduction you will be shown your luxurious tented rooms which stand on wooden platforms in the foothills west of Kilimanjaro.

Day 2/2: Monday April 21, 2008. West Kilimanjaro After breakfast in the banda we will go on a familiarization tour and hope to encounter the elephants and other wildlife. The camp is an ecologically sensitive enterprise and $20 of your nightly fee is a donation to Kilimanjaro Conservancy. After lunch the first workshop will be on the dining veranda. Gaelle will begin with a demonstration and give personal attention to everyone as the group paints and sketches, getting to know each other and the medium with which to work.

Day 3/3: Tuesday April 22, 2008. West Kilimanjaro Dawn heralds with tea delivered to your tent veranda. We will depart for a location on the foothills where we capture the first beams of sunshine slanting across the plains. Gaelle will show you watercolour washes that capture the fast changing light. Breakfast will be served by our driver on location. On returning to camp lunch will be served. After a rest Gaelle will hold an 'Introduction to Acrylics' workshop on the veranda.

Day 4/4: Wednesday April 23, 2008. West Kilimanjaro Dawn wake-up once again! We drive to a nearby Maasai manyatta where the cows and goats are being milked in the early morning light. Breakfast is served beside the car. Practice life/location-painting with warriors, womenfolk, children and domestic animals. return to camp for lunch and afternoon rest. We take the low road to the far hills for tea and to paint sunset view over the distant plains to Rift Valley.

Day 5/5: Thursday April 24, 2008. West Kilimanjaro/Manyara After packime to such extremes as to bewilder the senses. The escarpment of the Rift Valley which slipped down a thousand feet the length of this vast continent two million years ago stretches away as far as the eye can see. The shallow soda-encrusted lake is the perfect habitat for flamingos and pelicans. On its eastern desert shores grow the great baobab with tree-trunks sixty feet round with stiff branches that squiggle like a child's drawing reaching into the endless depths of the sky. After tea and settling in we will watch from the escarpment as the sundown illuminates the lake.

Day 6/6: Friday April 25, 2008. Lake Manyara An early start will bring us down the the Lake Manyara National Park. This is located along the western shore of the lake at the foot of the escarpment in a luscious ground-water forest where lions rest in dappled shade on the thick branches of gigantic leafy fig-trees and hippos wallow in mng our bags, and breakfast in the mess, we choose a riverside location to paint the dappled morning light.? After an early lunch we say goodbye to the Ndarakwai staff and head for the airport to fly to Manyara. The corner of the earth around Lake Manyara is houd-pools formed by cool springs that travel underground from the high plateaus and craters and gush out clear, dark and inviting in the heat. On lake-shore grassland among papyrus and palms drift herds of giraffe as if blown by the wind and as a backdrop, the volcanic mountain ranges barely discernible in the haze, like a chiffon veil drawn across an aristocratic old face. We will spend the day here with a picnic lunch.

Day 7/7. Saturday April 26, 2008. Lake Manyara After breakfast Gaelle will hold a final critical assessment of the work. (for those who choose to incorporate both safaris the numbering continues in workshop two). We can visit Mto Wa Mbo, a village along the northern edge of the lake on the new tarmac road to the Ngorongoro Crater. Cafe's, bars, curio and fabric shops, fruit stalls hanging out bright hands of bananas of every size and hue jostle with clinics, churches and schools for space in which to catch the eye of the tourist. After lunch we will depart, going up the winding red road through the rain forest to the crater rim and the lodge at Ngorongoro.

Day 8. Sunday April 27, 2008. Ngorongoro Crater A special end to your trip. A tour of the fabled Ngorongoro Crater, eighth wonder of the world. Taking the steep descent down what was once only a path for Maasai herdsmen, who still travel the same route to graze their herds on the grassland below, protected by towering lava walls, you will find the wild animals surprisingly tolerant of human proximity. You can take startlingly close photographs, a source of your own to continue the wilderness painting experience at home. Lunch will be a picnic in the crater. In the afternoon you return to the lodge to depart for the Manyara airport and the first leg of your onward flight.

Time to spare, then fly to Zanzibar, just over an hour away is the sparkling sea and silver sands of the spice island.