Adventures

No national park on the African continent concentrates elephants quite like Chobe National Park, Botswana. An estimated 120,000 to 130,000 African bush elephants roam this 11,700-square-kilometre park in northern Botswana, …

Pick up a standard African travel brochure, and you will find the same names rotating: Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Morocco. Cameroon rarely appears. That is not because it lacks something …

The question comes up every time someone starts planning a Southern Africa safari: Should you book a game lodge or a safari camp? Both put you in the wild. Both …

Serena Hotels did not appear overnight. The group grew out of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, and today it operates across more than a dozen properties in East …

Winston Churchill called Uganda the “Pearl of Africa” in 1908. Over a century later, the name still fits, even now arguably more than ever. Uganda sits at the equatorial heart …

West Africa has over 4,000 miles of Atlantic coastline. It contains some of the world’s most underdeveloped, least photographed, and most genuinely spectacular beaches. And for most of the past …

The brass casters of Benin City did not work in the dark. They worked in daylight, in open workshops in the royal quarter, under the authority of the Igun Eronmwon …

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 …

Few places on earth press their weight on your chest the way ancient Axum does. Stand inside the Northern Stelae Park in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, and the …

Deep inside one of Africa’s most extraordinary wilderness systems, the luxury lodges of the Okavango Delta have rewritten the rules of high-end travel. These are not simply places to sleep …