One in a series of blog posts where we attempt to highlight the distinguishing characteristics of a particular country in terms of its appeal to visitors. So here are my top, (and highly...

Rwanda: the country of a thousand hills. How do you ignore the genocide where 1,000,000 Rwandans where brutally killed over 100 days, more than 20 years ago? You can’t. . . You shouldn’t. . . It...

Like any job, mine has its upsides and downsides. A Botswana safari in the Okavango Delta at the start of one of the best floods in recent years was definitely one of the upsides! Ker & Downey, a...

Everyone’s idea of the ‘perfect’ honeymoon is different. Some couples would love nothing more than to be pampered and laze around a pool all day, sipping on ice cold beverages and over-indulging...

Oh, Age is but a number. . . We’ve had quite a few people with disabilities travelling with us over the years. These safaris all work smoothly because when someone is in a wheelchair, has clear...

I know, I know… This is not the most exciting of topics to get the travel juices flowing. But one which can have far-reaching consequences if ignored, as the Covid-19 pandemic showed us. What we...

If you’ve read our article about ‘cultural tourism’ you know that I have some mixed feelings about ‘cultural tours’. At best such tours can give you a tiny insight into historical,...

Malawi is an almost year-round destination. But due to the varied landscape, the weather does change from region to region… so when it’s heating up on the lakeshore at the end of September,...

So what IS cultural tourism? I sometimes feel that we cannot win when promoting cultural tourism within South Africa! People come to us with such differing cultural perceptions of their own that...