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Red Sandal Tours not only accompanies clients on the tours, but also consults and conducts educational workshops for students and educators on best practices in multi-cultural pedagogy.  We currently provide workshops for the Rochester City School District's Parent University and the Rochester Teacher Center; and various cultural presentations to church youth groups and centers including the Baobab Cultural Center. Our services focus on:

  • Conceive, deploy and implement value-added educational and technology initiatives
  • Short and long term planning: Getting children school-ready
  • Professional development programs: Using the Think Global Teach Local Framework
  • Values, vision and mission statements: Redirecting to focus on basic instructional and learning pedagogical strategies
  • Cultural and organizational change processes
Guided Cultural Tours Minimize
Red Sandal Tours provides educational and cultural trips to Brazil, Dominica, Ghana, India, South Africa and the Gullah Islands. Our guided tours go beyond “Third World” stereotypes, highlighting the treasures of Accra, Bahia, Cape Town, the Amazon, Jaipur, Rio and Roseau.
 
We are a specialty tour company, focusing on all-inclusive, educational and adventure vacation packages to exotic destinations for small groups and intrepid travelers. Dining with locals and enjoying cultural, private performances are a few of the treats that await our you. To find out more, please read our customer testimonials and what the media are saying about us.

For an unforgettable and exciting learning experience, we invite you to click on one of the countries / destinations below for a virtual tour, detailed itinerary, prices and much more.

  • Take the virtual tour now to experience the joys of Brazil!
  • Meet the world's friendliest people (Ghanaians) via this virtual tour!
  • To experience Mandela's homeland, click here!
  • Take the Gullah virtual tour now!
Travel Specialists Minimize
 

The company’s competitive advantage comprises: its small group size; flexibility to customize itineraries geared towards the group; providing an unparallel perspective into a country's history via its architecture, culture, customs, cuisine; dining at the homes of different socio-economic groups in the country and collaborating with a select group of tour operators on specific itineraries.

Although itineraries are edu-culturally biased, they can be as targeted as 3-days in a high school to immerse the educator in the Ghanaian pedagogy or as fun-filled and relaxed as picnicking and wine-sipping trips to Cape Town’s Winelands.

  • Tour operators specializing in educational and cultural trips to exotic places where you will enjoy an unparallel perspective into a country's history and culture through its architecture, cuisine, clothing and customs;
  • Carefully designed itineraries integrate the traveler with the local populace;
    Tours given by experts who have either lived or worked in the country. Operators have over 25 years of traveling experience;
  • Tours limited to a maximum of 10 people, giving us flexibility in schedule changes as the group sees fit, but ensuring that our clients receive our utmost attention;
  • Pre-journey advisory on passport, visa and vaccination issues, etc.;
  • Post-journey services including organizing digital and/or still print photographs.

Each tour is led by Nita and a local-based guide and is purposely limited to 10 people to ensure that our customer receives our utmost attention.

 

RedInk News Minimize

As part of our commitment to "opening your eyes to the world," the RedInk News section will feature our blogs, newsletters and published articles that provide another perspective to the countries and regions we visit.  We urge you to browse the articles, share them with your friends and families, download them on your iPod and be an ambassador to the locations we visit. 

RedInk News, sees itself like a griot, providing perspectives that perhaps other glossed over. The griot is a chronicler of history – keeping track of the history and developments of his people over time. The griot is also guardian of the knowledge of his people’s ancestry, or genealogy. This history may never be written down so the griot is crucial to keeping the records of the past as well as keeping it live.

Enjoy the articles and pass it on to others!!

Related Services Minimize

Whether you travel with us or not, you can enjoy the treasures of our global community via beautiful photographs of the places you can enjoy the treasures of our global community via artwork, clothing, furniture, ornamental pieces and objets d’art by clicking on a link below:

  • Artwork. Art has many genres: Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Oil, Water Color, Ink. Only a few of the words synonymous with Art. And in this case- Ghanaian art. Viewing only one category would be like knowing only one flavor of ice cream, or only one form of music. Just like sunsets have many hues and shades. Browse the picture gallery for an image that not only works with your taste, but also evokes the appropriate emotions.
  • MansaWear Apparel.  MansaWear is a custom-designed clothing line that blends Ghanaian and Western wear to produce an outfit that is "Uniquely You!" It is elegant and stylish custom-made, cosmopolitan clothing for the busy, professional woman with a discriminating fashion sense.  It’s for the fashion conscious woman who needs to stand out.  MansaWear caters to every woman because it’s tailor-made to uniquely fit you. Custom-made clothing is much more figure-flattering especially for curvier women. since its custom fit.   MansaWear is not just for the model-thin clientele;
  • Tourist Promotion.  Purposefully work with local communities to design and retail postcards and other products that promote tourism.