Shark Diving in Gansbaai
If Kruger National Park is the place to go in South Africa to see the Big Five (elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, and buffalo), then the coast around Cape Town is the equivalent for marine wildlife…
Travel Stories
Africa
4 stories
Lemurs Galore
Think of Madagascar and wildlife, and the first thing that springs to mind is, of course, the lemurs. With close to 100 different species, all of which are endemic to Madagascar, they come in all sorts of different
Taxi Brousse Extreme
We had been warned! The “road” hardly deserved the name, and the journey on the back of the pickup truck would be cramped and painful. But all the warnings…
The Vanilla Coast
Located in the remote tropical northeast of Madagascar, the Vanilla Coast is every bit as exotic as it sounds. Arriving on the twice-weekly flight from Tana (short for Antananarivo, the capital), we caught a whiff of vanilla, clove, and other exotic scents as soon as…