Adventures

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 …

In 1995, fewer than 25 desert-adapted lions survived in north-west Namibia, and the country’s elephant population had fallen to roughly 7,000. Black rhinos clung to a shrinking corner of Etosha …

A camera the size of a matchbox sits bolted to a marula tree in Tanzania’s Grumeti Reserve, watching a footpath no ranger can watch through the night. When a shape …

Every 10 February, a small crowd gathers among the graves of Kinshasa’s Gombe cemetery. They arrive in three-piece suits, silk cravats and leather brogues, and they climb onto the tombstones …

In April 2026, a delegation of Egyptian tourism officials stood at the edge of Lake Victoria in Jinja and photographed a stretch of water most of their clients have never …

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 …

Zimbabwe’s most storied hotel now belongs to a single owner, and that shift could decide who controls the next wave of investment at one of Southern Africa’s busiest tourism gateways. …

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 …