Our South Sudan photography tour starts in the early evening in our Juba hotel where we will enjoy dinner on the side of the pulsing White Nile, one of the most iconic rivers in Africa.

After breakfast and finalising our permits to travel we will fly to Kapoeta in Eastern Equatoria where we will meet our drivers who will take us north to the Boma Plateau, home of the spectacular Jiye people, with their intricately beaded crown jewellery and bodily scarification.

Today we will enjoy a full day of visiting Jiye communities for photography.

As we pack up our camp, we will drive south to the Toposa region, arriving in time to visit our first Toposa villages doing photography of these beautiful people and their wonderful vernacular architecture, including their ‘Ekore’ stilted granaries.  We may also see traditional dances including the feminine Meriya and hopefully Nyakwamoa, or the tribal dance of Toposa warriors.

Today we will enjoy another full day with the Toposa people, wandering through their villages and taking photos.

After a final morning of Toposa photography we will leave for the rugged and incredibly spectacular Kimotong mountains that are home to many villages of Laarim people.  These soaring granitic peaks also feature huge stands of desert rose plants, whimsical Laarim huts, animal enclosures and traditional grinding pits at the foothills of these mountains.  For centuries Laarim women have used these pits to grind grain and with luck we will watch them grinding grains while sometimes cradling their children in the warm stone

Today we will spend a full day exploring Laarim villages on foot, photographing their intricate and highly decorative bodily scarification and jewellery.  With luck we may see traditional dances like Nakeku, or the coming of age dance for young Laarim girls.

The next day we will travel out to the remote region of the Lopit people, who live close to the border of South Sudan and Uganda.  We will arrive in time to explore the beautiful villages of the Lopit people on foot taking photos.

Today we will spend a full day exploring Lopit villages for photography. We will also witness a simulated ceremonial dance for a Lopit funeral.  This highly decorated dance involves Lopit men dressed in leopard skins, colobus skins and headdresses fashioned out of cowrie shells and ostrich feathers.  As the most spectacular ceremony of our tour, this will be an absolute memorable highlight of our visit with these remote people.

After a final sunrise photography session, we will drive to the even more remote Peri people, arriving in time for a ceremony.

After a final morning of photography in the villages of the Peri people we will drive through three spectacular mountain ranges back to Juba.  We will also make a brief stop to view a prolific nesting site of Ruppell’s Vultures in one of the mountain ranges before we arrive in Juba for a much-needed rest, shower, battery charge and dinner by the White Nile.

Today we will embark on the final leg of our expedition to travel out to a remote cattle camp of the stunning Mundari people.  We will establish our expedition base right alongside our camp where we will spend four magical nights learning about Mundari ways, attending a traditional dance and witnessing a wrestling match.  As we enjoy numerous photography sessions with these amazing people, we will immerse ourselves in the Mundari world of worshipping their beautiful Ankole Watusi cows, watching children drink directly from their cows, young Mundari men sleep alongside them and we will enjoy the daily rituals of fire building, cattle caring and life amongst some of the most visually stunning people in all of Africa.

After a final sunrise photography session with the Mundari we will pack up our expedition, say our final farewells and drive back to Juba where we will once again enjoy a wonderful, final dinner on the banks of the White Nile.

Our photographic journey ends today after breakfast and if time allows we may take a short visit into Juba to wander the alleyways of the city’s bustling street market before we are taken to the airport for our flight home.