Nairobi-Shaba-Chalbi-Turkana Exploring ideas of where to go, Simon Marsh decides that a road trip up North, well beyond the usual tourist trail, might be a fun and unique way to…
Road trips
Dead Vlei is a clay pan deep in the Namib Desert, sitting alongside the Sossusvlei sand dunes. Both are located inside the Namib Naukluft Park, a 35-minute flight or 5-hour…
Wendy Watta discovers that a visit to Kitich camp and a hike up the beautiful chain of mountains in the Mathews Range is hardly complete without rope swinging like Tarzan…
Mt Marsabit is a shield volcano rising 1,700m above the low arid lands of northern Kenya. Winds carrying moisture from the Indian Ocean travel uninterrupted across Somalia into Northern Kenya,…
Words and photographs by Mwangi Kirubi At 3,470 metres high on the eastern slopes of Mt Kenya, Lake Ellis is the last accessible point by vehicle. In this photo essay, Mwarv…
When Jill Craig and a friend embark on planning a trip to Ethiopia, they quickly realise that cheap isn’t always best. It hadn’t started like this. No, no, no. Several years…
Catrina Stewart heads to the islands on Lake Victoria in search of a peaceful retreat and a whopper of a Nile Perch. Who killed Tom Mboya? The riddle over the…
Travel from Johannesburg to Nairobi in 10 days driving a Peugeot delivery van (called Henry) with two cats who loathe car journeys? Tracy Brooks’ friends and family all thought she…
Two years ago, Mario Rigby, a Canadian fitness instructor, dropped everything to head to South Africa for the start of an epic solo 12,000 km walk through 12 countries, ending…
Wedged between Tsavo West and Amboseli is the voluptuous Chyulu Hills range. Catrina Stewart wonders if the country that Ernest Hemingway wrote about still exists. It was the late 1940s,…
