Adventures

Pilgrims draped in white cotton robes, the basalt trenches of Roha, the damp, centuries-old volcanic stone,  and the burning beeswax and goat-skin parchment, all draped in the ancient silence of …

Lagos is no longer simply a stop on a Nigerian itinerary; it is the destination, and first-time visitors who treat it as anything less will leave having seen the performance …

Most travellers who decide to see Africa’s game reserves book the Kruger National Park. It is a fine park – 19,485 square kilometres, more than 500 bird species, and infrastructure …

Women are not just travelling more. They are rewriting the rules of who travel belongs to. Women make up an estimated 84% of all solo travellers globally, and 54% of …

No national park on the African continent concentrates elephants quite like Chobe National Park, Botswana. An estimated 120,000 to 130,000 African bush elephants roam this 11,700-square-kilometre park in northern Botswana, …

Pick up a standard African travel brochure, and you will find the same names rotating: Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Morocco. Cameroon rarely appears. That is not because it lacks something …

The question comes up every time someone starts planning a Southern Africa safari: Should you book a game lodge or a safari camp? Both put you in the wild. Both …

Serena Hotels did not appear overnight. The group grew out of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, and today it operates across more than a dozen properties in East …

Winston Churchill called Uganda the “Pearl of Africa” in 1908. Over a century later, the name still fits, even now arguably more than ever. Uganda sits at the equatorial heart …

West Africa has over 4,000 miles of Atlantic coastline. It contains some of the world’s most underdeveloped, least photographed, and most genuinely spectacular beaches. And for most of the past …