Africa
My African Nemesis
A study abroad and a committed effort to avoiding reality landed me in the middle of nowhere Africa at the age of twenty. Immediately after finishing my studies in Cape ...
Morocco Hashish
From Algeciras, Morocco can be seen, the point where travellers catch the ferry across the Gibraltar Straits. Algeciras is a town with the usual random menace of a ...
Marrakesh Travel Morocco
Travel in Morocco would have been great if not for the actual travelling bit. That was when you met all the hustlers and punks who made your life a ...
Fez Moroccan Wedding
The sound of ecstatic singing, drums and trumpets floated up from the narrow streets and reached the rooftop where Iqbal and I lay looking at the stars. We had no ...
Morocco Travel Sahara Desert and Bedouin
Ivan was another long-term road junky who happened to have gone to university in my home town in England. He’d hung around with some old friends of mine and ...
Fez Travel Morocco Flutes
I’d been told that the city of Fez was about as medieval a place as you could hope to find anywhere. The old parts of the city are still comprised ...
Morocco Travel Tuareg Nomads
Mountains wrap the perimeter of the hard scrubbed desert landscape and acquire a bluish tinge in the afternoon light. This is the southern tail of the Anti-Atlas mountains (named Djebel ...
Ramadan Ends on Zanzibar
The radio, wired up to a car battery, crackles into life in the near darkness outside the first house of Kizimbani village, where a small crowd has gathered to listen ...
Zanzibar - Not Quite the Beach
Sitting in the beach hut at our hostel on the Zanzibar coast, we can see two desert islands shimmering on the horizon. On one of our last afternoons of our ...
Selous - Sand Rivers
In the winter of 1980, Peter Matthiessen, the celebrated American writer, explorer and naturalist, set off on an extended foot safari into the remote southern regions of the Selous Game ...
Club Med in Egypt
I am on vacation with my family in Egypt. We have, for the first time in our lives, gone on a tour-bus vacation. Not just any tour-bus vacation, either. This ...
Climbing the Egyptian pyramids - Japanese Style
For nearly 5,000 years, the Great Pyramids of Egypt have instilled wonder and awe in mankind. In the last half a dozen centuries, they have also become a tempting lure ...
Extreme Travel in Namibia
I started my Namibian experience in the south at the remote and immensely appealing hamlet of Luderitz, a tiny fishing village forgotten by time.
The barren beauty of the desert landscape ...
Malawi - The Big-Hearted People
Driving my Land Cruiser from Lilongwe heading towards Monkey Bay, which is at the foot of Lake Malawi, I became aware of passing more people on a more frequent basis ...
Gorillas in Zaire
Everybody in the hostel in Kisoro, western Uganda, said the photo was the spitting image, $10 was the asking price. The doors that it opened were 10% entrance fees to ...
Angola - Land of Endless War
At Ondangua, northern Namibia, I met up with the convoy I was travelling with into Angola. We encountered no border controls and continued on past Ruacana Falls to Xangongo, which ...
