Category: Places
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Tangier
Tangier is a product of its location: the gate to the Mediterranean Sea and the meeting point of Africa and Europe. The Phoenicians and Carthaginians established trading posts here. The Romans made it a capital city. It was invaded by the Vandals and Visigoths and occupied by the Arabs. The Portuguese took the town before…
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Casablanca
In the 1930s, only two French achievements are said to have surprised the Americans: the First World War and Casablanca. A boom town, nicknamed ‘the African Marseilles’, ‘Casa’ was a city where you could drive around at 130 kph and where the streets were filled with luxurious cars. The city grew from a small trading…
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Peak practice: 5 mountains to master
Climbing a mountain doesn’t have to involve crampons and oxygen masks – and to celebrate International Mountain Day on 11 December, here’s an aspiration list of achievable peaks to scale. From Morocco and Japan to Guatemala, St Kitts and Tanzania, we’ve summit for everyone! Mt Toubkal (4,167m), Morocco Best for: hiking amid Berber villages The…
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6 Best Colombia National Parks
Colombia has 42 Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN), as well as numerous other sanctuaries and reserves, spread throughout the country, covering virtually every type of terrain, and comprising more than 20% of the national territory. Although some are very remote and difficult to access, others offer visitors the best chance to get to know the country’s…
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Best of Argentina
1 San Telmo The oldest barrio in Buenos Aires, colonial San Telmo is destination number one for an authentic tango experience. But it’s more than antique shops, bustling street fairs, poetic cafés and fish-netted dancers twirling in milongas. Here tourists, artists, vagabonds and business people mingle, strolling the cobbled streets and frequenting the dive bars,…
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The Vilcabamba Syndrome
At the time a tiny isolated village, Vilcabamba attracted international attention in the 1960s when researchers announced that it was home to one of the oldest living populations in the world. It was said that people here often lived well over 100 years, some as old as 135. Although doubt was subsequently cast on some of…
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Six Final Frontiers
an Juan de Nicaragua Located at the yawning mouth of the Río San Juan, the Caribbean port of San Juan de Nicaragua, formerly known as San Juan del Norte, marks the end of a long, meandering trip on jungle-shrouded river. No roads connect it with the outside world and the surrounding rainforests – the ancestral…
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Chile’s Best Treks
Parque Nacional La Campana Although not one of Chile’s more fashionable national parks, La Campana is a hidden gem. Split by two cerros in the middle of the park, the northern side is sun-baked while the southern side lies in the shade, giving rise to two utterly contrasting ecosystems: a day hike across the park…
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Top 10 Ideas for a Honey Moon Vacation in Africa
Honeymooners are referred to people in new relationship or love. In other words, a honeymooner is a couple in new marriages or a newly married couple. After marriage, the couple needs to move to anew place for refreshment or relaxation – this should be a place a way from your familiar location, the couple can…
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Top 8 Amazing Safari Places to See in Africa
If you want to visit Africa for safari, the best idea is to find out destinations with beautiful landscapes. These include national parks, waterfalls, mountains, volcanoes, rivers and lakes, capital cities, small villages among others. Travel photography is definitely important because it creates inspiration to travel to a particular place. Most travelers are inspired by…