Adventures

The Atlantic is louder here than you expect. Standing at the edge of Goree Island, off the coast of Dakar, with the ocean throwing itself against the pink and ochre …

You hear it before you see it. From a kilometre away, the sound arrives as a low, continuous thunder that sits beneath every other sound in the landscape. Then the …

The ferry from Dar es Salaam pulls into Zanzibar’s Stone Town at dusk. The light falls on carved wooden doors and coral-stone walls painted in the salt air. A man …

The African Travel and Tourism Association‘s 2026 Travel Trends report is unambiguous: cultural immersion, heritage storytelling, and slow, meaningful journeys are now the primary drivers of demand among global leisure …

The guide was not expecting visitors. It was seven in the morning on the Lasta Plateau, 2,500 metres above sea level in northern Ethiopia. He led the group down through …

The country you choose for your first safari determines everything that follows. It determines whether you spend your days surrounded by other vehicles queuing for a photograph or alone in …

There are six countries whose combined territory forms one of the most ecologically significant landmasses on the planet. Between them, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the …

The Busanga Plains open before you at sunrise, and the scale stops conversation. Red lechwe leap through shallow water. A lion pride moves through the mist at the far edge …

only sounds are wind, the distant percussion of hooves, and the occasional whoop of a hyena working the edge of the plain. Then, in November, the wildebeest arrive. Tens of …

The Maoma drums begin before dawn. Their sound carries fifteen kilometres across the floodwater: not a warning, but a summons. By morning, hundreds of paddlers have assembled at Lealui Palace. …