Travel Tips

A traveller from Manchester planning three weeks across Africa in 2026 has already made her first mistake before she opens a single airline website: she has treated the trip like …

Most travellers arriving in Morocco for the first time make the same choice without much deliberation: they book straight into Marrakech, because that is the name they know. That instinct …

The Cape Town travel guide 2026 that most visitors actually need is not about the mountain. It is about the city beneath it: which neighbourhoods reward the effort of getting …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The brass casters of Benin City did not work in the dark. They worked in daylight, in open workshops in the royal quarter, under the authority of the Igun Eronmwon …

Few places on earth press their weight on your chest the way ancient Axum does. Stand inside the Northern Stelae Park in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, and the …