Africa

At over 200 square miles of pristine wilderness, and with 4 of the Big 5 present, it’s hard to fathom why the Zambezi National Park in Zimbabwe isn’t on more…

You can hear the Falls before you’re even close to seeing them. A gentle murmur slowly transitioning to a deafening roar as a fine mist generated from the world’s largest…

It’s fair to say that Ouagadougou (pronounced Waa-Gaa-Doo-Goo), Burkina Faso’s capital, isn’t at the top of the average tourist’s bucket list. In fairness, that’s probably not without good reason. At…

Having been to Benin on more occasions then I’d care to count, over the last couple of years I’ve started to explore regional travel options from which Cotonou, Benin’s commercial…

If you’ve been following my blog over the past 12 months then you’ll no doubt have noticed that I’ve spent a fair amount of 2019 in Zimbabwe on the Nakavango…

It happens to the best of us: you spend months researching holiday destinations and tourist attractions. You sit at your computer fawning over photos you see online of picture-perfect vistas…

Accra, Ghana’s coastal capital city, isn’t your typical tourist destination. This sprawling metropolis isn’t designed to lure tourists and it doesn’t play host to any of Ghana’s most notable attractions.…

The ancient Phoenician city of Carthage is arguably the first thing on most people’s list of things to do in Tunisia, North Africa. Although today’s Carthage is the retreat of…

Although I’ll make the occasional trip to the zoo, from a photography perspective I’m not much of a fan. There’s just no thrill in photographing a ‘wild’ animal in an…

Some of you may remember that back in May (See posts HERE and HERE) I spent a couple of weeks in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe educating myself on the finer points…