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Lagos International Theatre Festival (LITF) transforms Lagos into a week-long stage of world-class plays and networking events. It’s a vibrant celebration of Nigerian creativity and global storytelling. History of the…
The Carnival Calabar is Africa’s biggest street party, bursting with colour, culture and creativity. This annual five-day spectacle in Calabar, Nigeria, features grand parades, dazzling costumes, energetic music and unforgettable…
The Timkat Festival in Ethiopia is a stunning celebration of Epiphany, filled with spiritual significance, music, dancing and colourful processions. Starting on January 19, this Orthodox Christian festival marks the…
Lemurs are unique to the island of Madagascar, an island that became separated from the African mainland when the super continent, Gondwanaland, broke apart. Are there lemurs outside of Madagascar?…
Roger Hermiston and Eileen Wise continue their safari in Botswana, visiting the Okavango Delta. The second half of our trip to Botswana took us to one of the Seven Natural…
Images from packed airports demonstrate the desire to wander has lost none of its lustre during the last couple of years. If you are looking to go on holiday next…
in the first of two articles, Roger Hermiston and Eileen Wise take an amazing Botswana safari, staying at three camps run by Great Plains Conservation, commencing at Selinda Camp. It…
Travel Begins at 40 has scanned the globe to collate our tips on where to go in April from Argentina to Mozambique, and from Washington DC to Yangon. If March…
Gill Haynes goes on an Okavango Delta safari in Botswana where the local wildlife steals the show. It was the first time we’d flown between safari camps in a small…
Marion Ainge soaks up sunshine, souks, the Sahara and seafood on her trip to Tunisia. Holding up a statuette as I pass by, the young stallholder calls out, “This is…
Mark Bibby Jackson chats with Sibylle Riedmiller, Director at Chumbe Island, Tanzania about the great success of the award-winning project over the past 30 years, as well as its uncertain future. One…
Travel Begins at 40 talks with Paul Gardiner, the CEO of conservation-focused hotel chain the Mantis Group founded by his father conservationist Adrian Gardiner in 2000. What is sustainable tourism…
The 2024 Aké Festival will held between 20 and 22 November in Lagos Nigeria. The arts and books festival will include book chats, panel discussions, films poetry reading and music…
Like with her previous work, Marina Shacola’s latest series, Dressing, sees the photographer again focusing her lens on the people of Turkana Kenya, but this time the work is less…
Travel Begins at 40 chats with Simon Albert, Director of Charity Challenge, which celebrates its 20th birthday in 2019 helping raise over £55 million for charity in the process. How…
The Voodoo Festival or the Fête du Vaudou is a celebration of traditional religions in the West African country of Benin, the cradle of the voodoo cult. Voodoo claims a prominent place …
African safari holidays are incredible experiences you’ll remember for the rest of your life. Thousands of travellers set off each year in the hope of spotting as many different species…
Phil Ellis went on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure to Uganda to see the country’s mountain gorilla in its natural environment, and find it a life-changing experience…
In the second of his series of QAs, Travel Begins at 40 Founder, Mark Bibby Jackson, relates his favourite – or at least most memorable – African safari experience. My…
On a South Africa Travel trip to the Western Cape, with a brief excursion into the Eastern Cape, Eileen Wise and Roger Hermiston dip their toes into this remarkably vast…
On their trip through South Africa, Eileen Wise and Roger Hermiston pay a visit on a controversial figure in Cape Town at the Rhodes Memorial…
Luke Bailes, the charismatic founder of Singita, is one of the most influential individuals in African wildlife conservation tourism, preserving swathes of African wilderness by promoting environmentally conscious and socially…
Is there any continent more full of mystery than Africa? Yet, it is perhaps – with the exception of Antarctica – the least accessible. But it doesn’t have to be so.
Many of us have dreamed about going on an African safari, but perhaps it is something we put off onto later. Now is later. So don’t dilly-dally any further. From tips on how to avoid the crowds on your African safari, to ideas on how to take a safari over a weekend, we have compiled all our articles in this one travel ideas page.
But Africa is not just about going on a safari. From getting up close and comfortable with gorillas or taking a ride through the wine regions of South Africa, the continent is rich with a diverse range of experiences, and that’s not forgetting the wonders of Morocco and North Africa.
We even have an interview with an African wildlife conservationist, as well as our prediction on what will be the next travel destination in the continent.
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