Madagascar ‘Little in this scene suggested the twentieth century, and this very quality drew me to rural Russia. This was the selfish conceit of the traveller. What to me was a charming lack of modernity was, to the Russians who inhabited this landscape, a world of outhouses, of water hauled from wells, of endless chopping …
Jambiani - Zanzibar I love Saudi Arabia but..... After fifteen months in the country with only one three-week trip home to the UK, I was enormously excited to be looking out of a plane window as we flew along the East African coast with it's endless white beaches and the glistening Indian Ocean tempting me …
Sossusvlei to Cape Town - Namibia to South Africa June 2008 Namibia is vast, an impression I got at Spitzkoppe, the same impression I got while admiring the view under a parachute, and the same impression I got when we arrived at our “almost bush camp”, the first night after leaving Swakopmund. I say it …
Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Both surprisingly and unsurprisingly I awoke relatively late in the morning. Unsurprisingly because I was super comfortable and I can sleep better than most hibernating bears yet, surprisingly because in a few hours’ time I was scheduled to jump out of a plane. I had done a skydive five years …
Spitzkoppe to Swakopmund - Namibia June 2008 Spitzkoppe is one of those places you have never heard about and one I would never have visited if it hadn’t been for the tour. As we drove out into the vast Namib desert all I knew was that we were off to see a giant rock, Africa’s …
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