Adventure Tourism

A tourist bound for the Tassili n’Ajjer plateau cannot simply buy a plane ticket and go. Even with the fare paid, a foreigner still needs someone else’s permission: an accredited …

The peaks sit in Burkina Faso‘s Cascades Region, roughly 50 kilometres west of Banfora, where narrow sandstone fins and needle-shaped spires rise about 415 metres above sea level along a …

The skier arrives expecting Africa to look nothing like a winter holiday. Then the temperature drops to minus 8°C, the Maluti Mountains turn white, and a ski instructor points towards …

Rwanda may eventually ask tourists to go underground for a different reason: not to see minerals being extracted, but to understand how the country extracted them. Mining operators are now …

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 …