This document provides photos and captions from a trip to Guinea, West Africa. It shows experiences like spontaneous music, road trips, dancing, drumming classes, cooking, scenery, and cultural experiences in villages and on an island. The trip spanned December 2012 through February 2013 and involved bonding, learning, and immersing in Guinean culture.

1. Experience a trip of a lifetime!

2. Spontaneous Jammin’

5. Night Life

7. Talib scurrying to set up….

8. Andrea’s Birthday Surprise

9. Packing for Excursion to Kindia

11. Ready to Roll?

14. Road Trip Guinea Style

15. Male Bonding

17. Sam Stretching in Sunshine

18. Kambalia

20. Alseny with Village Boys

22. Hotel Illymanya

23. Our Talented Drumming Staff

24. Future Balafon Master in the
Making

25. Who, little ol’ me?

26. Kambalia’s Gorgeous Landscapes

29. Farmer Tending Cassava Crop

31. Jenny at Hotel Illymanya

35. Guinea’s Medicinal Plants

38. Kambalia’s Rice Fields

39. Close Up of Rice Plant

40. Termite Mound

42. Le Voile de la Mariee Waterfall
outside Kindia

44. I think I drank too much water!

46. Preparing Food over an Open Fire

47. Field Adjacent to Hotel Illymanya

49. Bet ya can’t do this!

54. Fabulous Morning Hike to through
Breath Taking Canon to Waterfall

57. Jenny with the Giant Bamboo

58. Le Voile de la Mariee Waterfall
outside Kindia

59. Talib Smiling after a Refreshing
Swim

61. This Beats a Shower Any day!

63. Group Shot

64. Ibrahima Sory our Chauffer

65. Warm Up for Alseny Yansane’s
Dance Class at Waterfall

74. Pleasant Stroll to Waterfall

79. Les Espoirs du Coronthine
Concert at the Palace of the People

81. Boat Trip to Island of Roume

83. Abass Singing a Welcoming Sea
Bearing Song

84. Overturned Ship

85. On the Beach at Sunset

86. Naby & Lara doing a Language
Exchange

87. Dance Class on the Beach

91. Mafini Steaming Porridge for
Breakfast

92. Island Village Culture

93. More Fabulous Dance Classes

97. Mohamed Gearing Up for a Killer
Drum Class

105. Naby Showing Talib a Drum
Tightening Technique

106. Hangin’ Out Time

107. Merry Christmas!

109. Island Dance Party

111. Bother & Sister

112. Christmas Merriment

113. Laundry Day with Lupeta

115. Traditional Guinean Cooking Pots

116. Ahh…The Beach!

117. Acrobats

119. Surfs Up!

121. Beach Balafon Music

126. Alseny’s Dance Class

129. Wontanara! “We are One”

130. Boubah Scaling a Fresh Catch

132. Fanta Pounding Palm Kernels to
make Oil

133. Like Mother, like daughter

134. Spectacular Island Views

138. Roume’s Elementary School

140. Banyon Tree

141. Boat Ride Back Home to Conakry

144. Boulabinet Port, Conakry

145. Fatim Braiding Katie’s Hair

146. Tanara’s Fancy Do

148. Guard Soulyman Reporting for
Duty

149. Naby Skinning Djembe

150. Karen Relaxing after teaching a
Rigorous Dance Class

152. New Year’s Eve Festivities

161. DJ Extraordinaire!

163. Dundunba Drum & Dance Party

168. Bustin’ A Move

173. Dundunba After Party with
Camayenne Neighborhood Kids

178. Guinean Comedian

180. Guinean Public School

184. Guinean Mom & Pop Shop

185. A Night of Pool

186. Emma on Her Birthday

187. Ousmane Shakin’ it Up

188. Alseny Playing Baby Balafon

189. Eating Together

190. Breakfast: ground corn, yogurt,
mango & pineapple

192. Court Yard of Home Base in
Conakry, Guinea

193. Bouluboulu Preparing Fish

194. Washing Dishes

195. Trying Out The Wash Board

196. Home Base in Conakry

198. Jenny & Jillian’s Room

199. Dance Studio

200. Playing Cards after Dinner

201. Alseny Dying Mohamed’s Hair

203. Drummers Playing for a Lively
Dance Class

204. Neighborhood Girls

206. Our Fabulous Balafonist-
Sawaraxata

207. Alseny Dancing a Solo

208. Sawaraxata Making Atayah Tea

209. Lunch Time Around the Communal
Bowl

210. Gift Giving Ceremony

220. Neighborhood

221. Soccer Field

223. Making Friends

229. December 2012-February 2013