How to Negotiate A Camel Ride to the Great Pyramids
Learn tips for negotiating a camel ride to the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, so you can see them the old school way.
Learn tips for negotiating a camel ride to the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, so you can see them the old school way.
Mark recounts some unexpected discoveries he made while visiting Egypt.
Tips for how to be a local in Kenya, based on cultural norms and insights like eating chunks of pure enriching animal fat.
I was especially struck by the crafsmanship and colors of the woven bowls.
The African doll I bought at a market in South Africa.
My big international adventures of the year were a week in Rwanda and 6 months in Colombia.
The large, colorful, and toxic Koppie Foam Grasshopper is native to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa.
We’d read en route of people who’d abandoned their pre-paid trip after a few weeks.
Africa has the ability to leave even the most cultured of travellers fumbling at the first location.
Bulungula Lodge is situated amidst the rugged landscape of South Africa’s Wild Coast.
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Word of mouth from World Cup tourists will be a powerful factor in deciding whether South Africa’s tourism will increase in the near future.
The green and yellow of Bafana Bafana clearly lifted a nation.
When Carolyn explained her vision, I instantly identified with it based on my travels.
Even though I chose to take a barge-like cruise ship up the Nile River, I still had plenty of time to enjoy felucca rides around Aswan. As with everything in …
Once I arrived in Luxor and joined the organized tour, I was insulated from most of the shenanigans and tourist shams (though one might argue I paid into the biggest …
In 2001, I had plans to visit Egypt however 9/11 disrupted them and I’d had it on the back burner ever since. In December 2008, I flew Egypt Air from …
When visiting South Africa, it can be tempting to pass on Johannesburg altogether (aka Jo’burg, or Jozi amongst the locals). It has a reputation of being very dangerous, and lacks …
After two months of traveling South Africa, from Cape Town to Kruger Park, I still wasn’t ready to leave the region. South Africa is the most developed country on the …