My first thought upon arriving in Lamu, the pearl of the Kenyan coast, was where have I taken my 7-year-old kid? Dusty, dirty and it smelled, horribly. Lamu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its cultural significance, is steeped in the Swahili culture that once dominated the East African coast from Somalia to Mozambique. And [...]
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In September my sister asked if I would be interested in joining her on a trip to the Karoo. I am always happy travelling with my sister but had little knowledge of the Karoo. I thought it would be flat and uninteresting with a lot of grazing sheep so had given little thought to what [...]
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I was lucky enough to visit Northern Mozambique in January for the third time in three years. This area is really beginning to open up to tourism and now is certainly the time to go, as it is a rapidly changing area, although luckily the building of hotels and lodges is being done in quite [...]
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Madagascar is an island with a feast of experiences ranging from desert and sandstone to sprawling lemur-filled primary rainforests to some of the most beautiful islands I have ever encountered. The people are delightfully friendly, if not a little amused by the constant dribble of anorak-clad tourists flowing through the towns and rainforests. Service can [...]
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Rain & the Garden of Eden with the Long Necked Leopard.If anyone thinks that it rains in Britain then no one has experienced a downfall as I did in Tanzania. It didn’t just rain, the heavens literally opened… Leaving behind six inches of snow, I arrived at Dar’s extremely hot and humid airport and hopped [...]
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