Rex Clarke

The door is not the first thing you see when you arrive at a Swahili stone house. The door is the first thing you are meant to see. In Lamu, …

Stand on the rim of the Blyde River Canyon in Limpopo Province. The canyon drops 800 metres to the Treur and Blyde rivers below, a landscape of red and brown …

Kenya’s safari sector generated KSh 460 billion, approximately $3.5 billion, in tourism revenue in 2024, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service. Of that total, 75% came from wildlife-based tourism. The …

Stand in the Djemaa el-Fna square in Marrakech at dusk, and you are standing in one of the most photographed public spaces on earth. Storytellers work the crowd in Darija. …

There is no flight route from Kinshasa to Lagos. The two cities are roughly the same distance apart as Paris and Madrid. A Paris-to-Madrid flight takes two hours and costs …

Nairobi is consistently described as a stopover city. A place you pass through on the way to the Masai Mara, Zanzibar, or Kilimanjaro—a hub, not a destination. The description is …

The door has a name. Ghana renamed it in 2019. What was once called the Door of No Return, the opening in Cape Coast Castle’s thick stone walls through which …

Stand at the Door of No Return on Goree Island and watch the Atlantic. The door faces west. Ships once left through it carrying people who would never see this …

Every visitor to Victoria Falls eventually confronts the same question. It sounds simple. Zimbabwe or Zambia? The honest answer is that it depends on three things: when you are going, …

Morocco vs Egypt  is one of the biggest decisions first-time North Africa travellers make in 2026. In 2024, Morocco welcomed 17.4 million visitors, a 20% increase over 2023, making it …