Adventures

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 …

In 1990, the last confirmed cheetah in Malawi vanished from the record entirely—no sighting, no carcass, just an absence where a species had been. Twenty-seven years passed before a cheetah …

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 …

In 2011, rangers walking the floodplains of southeastern Chad counted exactly one elephant calf under the age of three. National Geographic reports that nine years earlier, more than 4,000 elephants …

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 …