Adventure Tourism

Ghana’s Volta Lake watersports scene is real, and it is growing faster than the continental strategy meant to encourage it. That gap, between what the African Union’s Continental Tourism Strategy …

In October 2025, the United States ordered non-emergency staff to leave its embassy in Bamako. Three months later, in January 2026, it reversed that decision and normalised operations there, citing …

Lesotho’s push to brand itself as Africa’s Mountain Kingdom is not an isolated marketing exercise. It sits directly inside the African Union’s Continental Tourism Strategy, the policy architecture meant to …

Ninety metres down inside Egypt’s Blue Hole, there is no engine noise, no bubbles, no gauge ticking away air. Just a rope, a diver’s own heartbeat slowing on command, and …

High in northern Ethiopia, where the land rises into serrated peaks and sweeping plateaus, stands one of Africa’s most astonishing landscapes: Simien Mountains National Park.  Often called the “Roof of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …