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Day 1-2
Depart U.S. / Arrive Arusha |
Connect in Amsterdam with your flight to Kilimanjaro Airport,
arriving late evening. You will be met by Thomson Safaris
staff and transferred to your lodge.
- Overnight: Kigongoni Lodge
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Day 3
Tarangire National Park |
Get to know Denis this morning during a breakfast safari briefing.
You will then leave Arusha, traveling southwest through the
Maasai Steppe to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania's fourth
largest.
- Breakfast safari briefing with Denis
- Wildlife viewing in Tarangire National Park
- Overnight: Thomson Tarangire Nyumba
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Day 4
Tarangire National Park |
Today will mark your first full day joining the creative process
with your safari routine. You may choose to take optional
morning and afternoon wildlife viewing drives to sketch from
your Land Rover or refine your work at your Nyumba.
- Sketch from your Nyumba or Land Rover during optional
morning and afternoon game drives
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evenings
- Overnight: Thomson Tarangire Nyumba
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Day 5
Tarangire National Park |
Enjoy Tarangire National Park, which is at its peak at this
time of year, with great herds of elephant, gazelle and wildebeest.
Denis will be available for advice, suggestions, and casual
exercises to practice your technique.
- Sketch from your Nyumba or Land Rover during optional
morning and afternoon game drives
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evening
- Overnight: Thomson Tarangire Nyumba
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Day 6
Ngorongoro Crater and Highlands |
Depart Tarangire making your way up the scenic Great Rift
Valley wall. Your destination, Gibbs Farm, offers an abundence
of inspiration with its stunning, lush landscapes and flower-filled
gardens.
- Sketch from your Nyumba or Land Rover during optional
morning and afternoon game drives
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evening
- Overnight: Gibbs Farm
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Day 7
Ngorongoro Crater and Highlands |
Spend time sketching in the gardens at Gibbs Farm, take a
cultural excursion or visit with the artist in residence for
a Tanzanian perspective on the arts.
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evening
- Overnight: Gibbs Farm
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Day 8
Ngorongoro Crater and Highlands |
Spend two full days in Ngorongoro Crater, a geological marvel
boasting several vegetation zones from lakes to forest to
savannah and home to about 30,000 animals, despite its tiny
size of only 10 miles across.
- Afternoon wildlife viewing and sketching on the floor
of Ngorongoro Crater
- Overnight: Gibbs Farm
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Day 9
Ngorongoro Crater and Highlands |
Spend another day on the crater floor, searching out lion,
hippo, the rare black rhino, hyena, wildebeest, zebra, African
buffalo and much more.
- Afternoon wildlife viewing and sketching on the floor
of Ngorongoro Crater
- Overnight: Gibbs Farm
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Day 10
Serengeti National Park |
Enjoy the vastness of the Serengeti "the land that flows
on forever" along with some of the best game-viewing
that Africa has to offer. As always, Denis will continue casual
instruction that includes color theory and composition.
- Sketch from your Nyumba or Land Rover during optional
morning and afternoon game drives
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evening
- Overnight: Thomson Serengeti Nyumba
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Day 11
Serengeti National Park |
Observe not only wildlife and scenery, but become aware of
how light transforms a landscape, listen, smell and feel the
breeze as it shifts the grasses and take in Africa as it lives
and breathes around you.
- Sketch from your Nyumba or Land Rover during optional
morning and afternoon game drives
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evening
- Overnight: Thomson Serengeti Nyumba
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Day 12
Serengeti National Park |
Enjoy another day of wildlife viewing from a second location
deep in the Serengeti. Home to literally hundreds of thousands
of hoofed animals, the Serengeti is pristine and unique sanctuary
that will give you a glimpse into “the world as it was
in the beginning.”
- Sketch from your Nyumba or Land Rover during optional
morning and afternoon game drives
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evening
- Overnight: Thomson Serengeti Nyumba
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Day 13
Serengeti National Park |
Spanning nearly 6,000 square miles, the Serengeti has even
more to offer you today.
- Sketch from your Nyumba or Land Rover during optional
morning and afternoon game drives
- Discuss your observations and sketches during casual conversations
in the evening
- Overnight: Thomson Serengeti Nyumba
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Day 14
- 15
Serengeti / Arusha / Depart |
This morning, you will depart on a short flight from an exclusive
northern Serengeti location to Arusha. There, with portfolios
in hand and memories to last a lifetime, you will have time
for a farewell lunch before retiring to a day room. Later
this evening, you will be transferred to the airport, arriving
home on Day 15 with a unique collection of observations, impressions
and sketches of Tanzania.
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Denis
Clavreul
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Denis Clavreul grew up in the
French countryside outside of Nantes, in the Loire Valley.
There, he was exposed to life on a farm, and as a result,
he developed a love of nature and a connection to the earth
from a very early age. Later, this led him to study biology
and ecology, and eventually, he earned a PhD in ecology from
the Universities of Nantes and Rennes. A self-taught artist,
Clavreul combined ecology and art later in life, much the
way one of his inspirations, John James Audubon, did in the
nineteenth century.
Denis is a soft-spoken but passionate artist.
He has taken several trips to Tanzania, one of which resulted
in an acclaimed collaborative work called Tanzania Notebooks.
He encourages those who attend his workshops to set aside
self-critical attitudes and experiment with what they observe
as individuals, capturing fleeting moments, rather than getting
side-tracked by rigid notions of perfection. It is a very
freeing concept that will not only help you “see”
your surroundings from a different perspective but improve
your sketching abilities. |
Denis Clavreul's watercolor work is featured in the Thomson
Safaris materials.
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