Destination Guides

The ferry from Dar es Salaam pulls into Zanzibar’s Stone Town at dusk. The light falls on carved wooden doors and coral-stone walls painted in the salt air. A man …

The African Travel and Tourism Association‘s 2026 Travel Trends report is unambiguous: cultural immersion, heritage storytelling, and slow, meaningful journeys are now the primary drivers of demand among global leisure …

Tourists press together beneath the Door of No Return, an ochre-and-gold arch rising from the beach at Ouidah in southern Benin. Carved into its face are the figures of chained …

The guide was not expecting visitors. It was seven in the morning on the Lasta Plateau, 2,500 metres above sea level in northern Ethiopia. He led the group down through …

Most travellers who visit East Africa see one country. The ones who plan well see a civilisation. East Africa is not a destination. It is a collection of experiences so …

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. That sentence is true, verifiable, and almost entirely absent from mainstream history education. The Kingdom of Kush, which ruled the Nubian region of the …

Radisson Hotel Group has crossed the 100-hotel mark in Africa, counting both properties in operation and those under development, as the group accelerates its growth agenda across the continent heading …

When travellers plan island holidays, the destinations that come to mind first are rarely African. The Maldives. Bali. The Greek islands. Barbados. These are places that have been sold to …

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 …

only sounds are wind, the distant percussion of hooves, and the occasional whoop of a hyena working the edge of the plain. Then, in November, the wildebeest arrive. Tens of …