Adventures

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 …

No one enters the shrine at Kaya Kinondo in shorts. That rule has outlived colonial administrators, two Kenyan republics, and a beach-tourism boom that now sits within walking distance of …