Kumakonda is a travel agency specializing in trips to unconventional destinations in Africa.
We are experts in overland tours in West and Central Africa.
Destination Africa with Kumakonda
The destinations we offer you are: Chad, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau and Bijagos Archipelago, Guinea Conakry, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Republic of Congo and Gabon.
Our trips in Africa. What do we offer?
Each of our trips in Africa has been planned by hand, based on our extensive knowledge of the African continent. No one better than us to offer logistical support of any kind in the most remote destinations in Africa.
We know the laws of many of the countries through which we travel regarding imports, customs, special permits, etc., which allows us to offer our customers the possibility of carrying out any type of project.
We realize trips and expeditions of adventure in overland truck 4×4 in central and western Africa, routes of exploration, cultural trips and of nature and trips to measure by Africa.
We offer a small number of trips to Africa each year, which allows us to offer a superior travel experience to any other agency.
Kumakonda is the result of our knowledge and passion for Africa, a passion that has been forged after many long journeys through 40 countries on the African continent.
Kumakonda Team
AUSTERIO ALONSO
Co-founder of Kumakonda, handcrafted travel design and content creation. Expedition leader.
An adventurous traveller who has travelled through a large part of the African continent, tireless in his search for cultures and in his yearning to reach the most beautiful and hidden places, he is an expert in Africa.
He has the facility to respond to unforeseen situations. Magnificent driver and excellent in the organization of a trip, uninhibited and with the good humor of those who devote themselves to what is his passion, lives with enthusiasm each trip and transmits it to travelers who accompanies making everyone feel part of a great expedition.
MÓNICA MARTÍNEZ
Co-founder of Kumakonda, content management, administration and creation
In love with Africa, its people, its culture, its nature and its music, and with the desire to share our knowledge I am co-founder of Kumakonda, to make you discover the most secret places of the continent, to explore the tribal cultures, the wildest nature and the ancestral rites.
OSCAR LÓPEZ
Oscar is the guarantee that any expedition by truck, 4×4 or motorcycle, no matter how extreme, will be successful. A professional driver, mechanic and guide, Oscar is passionate about motor vehicle adventure travel. He will accompany us on many of our 4×4 truck expeditions through Central Africa.
HAMIT YAYA DAKINE
Born in Ounianga Kebir in northern Chad, Hamit is our collaborator in the country. His great knowledge of the desert and the different tubus ethnicities that inhabit the north-central Chad are essential in the expeditions that we realize in Chad.
NURIA DOMENECH
Graduate in musicology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and specialized in ethnomusicology, study of oral tradition music through an anthropological, social and cultural approach.
She has lived four years between Guinea Conarky and Senegal. Passionate about the ethnic and musical diversity of the African continent, she immediately understood that in order to know the root of a culture, one has to learn the local language. She therefore speaks fluently susu (the national language of Guinea Conakry) and defends herself in Mandinka. In addition to notions of several West African languages.
He works as a freelance for the Museu de la Música de Barcelona, collecting instruments and information, and giving lectures on the history of oral tradition and the transmission of values through music.
She will be our guide and translator in this direct approach to the heart of other cultures.