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Every visitor to Victoria Falls eventually confronts the same question. It sounds simple. Zimbabwe or Zambia? The honest answer is that it depends on three things: when you are going, …

Morocco vs Egypt  is one of the biggest decisions first-time North Africa travellers make in 2026. In 2024, Morocco welcomed 17.4 million visitors, a 20% increase over 2023, making it …

Tanzania received 5.36 million international visitors in 2024, broke its own arrival record a full year ahead of schedule, and was named the World’s Leading Safari Destination at the 2025 …

In January 2026, BBC Travel named Algeria the second-best destination in the world to visit. In that same month, five governments issued travel cautions for the country. Both things are …

The bowl arrives before you have finished sitting down. It is wide enough to feed four people, its surface broken by two large pieces of grilled thiof – white grouper …

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 …