A taste of Greece: far, far away from the real one!
Copying the real and the reality, is not a sin, or is it? Would you prefer an imitation or the plain, true and real thing?
Without the ancient ruins, the arhaelogical sites, the mountains and traditional villages, Greece is, well, just a whole lot of Mediterranean islands filled with goats, beautiful people and olive trees. With its [...]
The last snows of Kilimanjaro
My first glimpse of Kilimanjaro is awesome. As dawn breaks in the town of Moshi in the north of Tanzania, the snow-capped peak of the mountain emerges from the mist.
Six kilometres (19,500ft) above sea level, the snow and ice hurt the eyes in the African sun. Kilimanjaro, literally the “mountain of snow”, is a [...]
Libya unlocked
For centuries, Libya’s desert sands have preserved an archaeological treasure of Greek and Roman ruins. But for years the nation was off limits to travelers.
Now the doors are open and tourists are invited into a land that once nourished Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Byzantine colonies on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Libya Revealed, 14-day fall tours offered by [...]
A fragment of Africa set adrift in the ocean
We wanted to know all the hidden corners of Africa, so we traveled to Madagascar and a resort so remote that the address is given only in latitude and longitude.
Anjajavy, a remote part of Madagascar.
On a map, it seems no more than a chiselled flint arrowhead off the east coast of Africa, a fragment chipped [...]
Cape Town is for chilling
Last February myself and a crew packed our bags and headed off to South Africa to do a fashion shoot. How glamorous is that? Are you jealous yet? Well don’t be, because believe me, it was hard work. Hot and sweaty with tons of work to do, I just about caught a glimpse of pink [...]
Morocco > Mystical city lures wealthy
Morocco’s historic walled city of Marrakesh is changing fast and a veneer of Western influence is contrasting ever more starkly with its native Islamic core.
The heartbeat of the ancient capital, once no faster than camel caravans plying the trans-Saharan routes before the trek across the Atlas mountains to reach the city, is partly quickening [...]
Moroccan city is latest great escape
It’s the kind of place one first hears about in a yoga class, discussed in heated whispers between sun salutations. Or while eavesdropping on two model types with French accents in a cafe. About 10 years ago that place might have been Tulum, Mexico, but these days it’s Essaouira, a tiny white-walled port city on [...]
The Jewel of the Nile
Travelling to Luxor from Cairo in a propeller plane entails frequent prayers and constant clock-watching.
The sense of going back in time begins in the air itself. The bumpy and, in the end, safe flight culminates at the small domestic division of the airport. After the often-crowded Cairo airport, this comes as a relief. An exit [...]
An Egyptian adventure
On the Cairo-Alexandria Highway, Egypt > As the sun set over the Zambezi, a lone zebra ventured to the water’s edge for a cooling drink after the hot day, apparently unconcerned about predators or other danger.
After all, why worry? This was not an untamed river in sub-Saharan Africa, but the Zambezi Rest Stop, just [...]
Where the wild things are
The Masai Mara is the most visited game park in Kenya and it is easy to see why, especially when herds of wildebeest pass through on their annual migration.
Several dozen vans were parked in a semi-circle around a grassy plain of grazing zebras. We pulled up alongside the throng of spectators, when it became obvious [...]
