Adventures

Fly into Douala and drive two hours toward the coast, and the sand changes colour before the sea does. Near Limbe, waves break on volcanic grey-black sand thrown out by …

In 2011, rangers walking the floodplains of southeastern Chad counted exactly one elephant calf under the age of three. National Geographic reports that nine years earlier, more than 4,000 elephants …

A fisherman in Eyl still reads the current the way his grandfather did, by watching where the light breaks on the water. Three hundred metres from where he stands, the …

No one enters the shrine at Kaya Kinondo in shorts. That rule has outlived colonial administrators, two Kenyan republics, and a beach-tourism boom that now sits within walking distance of …

A round-trip ticket between Kinshasa and Lagos can cost more than a long-haul flight from Berlin to Istanbul, despite covering a shorter distance. That mismatch, once a curiosity to aviation …

For years, the safari industry treated Africa’s rainy months as a discount bin for travellers who could not afford the real season. That thinking has not aged well. A green …

A traveller from Manchester planning three weeks across Africa in 2026 has already made her first mistake before she opens a single airline website: she has treated the trip like …

The allure of Kilimanjaro makes it the most searched African adventure query globally.  Kilimanjaro’s seven recognised routes, its 1973 national park status, and its 1987 UNESCO listing make it both …

The flood arrives in winter. That single inversion tells you everything different about the Okavango Delta. While the rest of Botswana bakes through its dry season, between June and August, …

Angola has stopped waiting to be discovered. When Tourism Minister Márcio Daniel sat down with Guy Hutchinson, Hilton’s president for the Middle East and Africa, in Luanda this week, the …