Adventure Tourism

The plane touches down at Kotoka International Airport, and the immigration officer says “Akwaaba” before you hand over your passport. Welcome. For hundreds of thousands of people of African descent …

A Maasai landowner in the Mara does not receive his lease payment from a hunting operator. He receives it from a safari camp. The same land his grandfather once leased …

Both sites deserve a visit. That is the honest starting point. Lalibela and Axum are two of the most significant historical sites on the African continent, and asking which to …

At five in the morning, the beach at Assinie is still dark, and the Atlantic is already moving. The groundswell has been building since midnight – long, organised lines from …

At the base of a 500-metre sandstone cliff in central Mali, the abandoned dwellings of the Tellem people are embedded in the rock face like wasps’ nests. The Tellem built …

Ethiopia does not issue a cultural immersion visa. What is issued is a standard tourist eVisa, valid for 30 days, applied for online, and processed in 1 to 3 business …

Ethiopia does not issue a special visa for cultural or immersive travel. All visitors enter on a standard Ethiopia tourist eVisa, valid for 30 days, applied for online, and typically …

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 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 …

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 …