Africa

currently with only sub-Saharan nations, but very much to be continued…

Angola

Sri Lanka in Feb 2018 was one of my fave ever trips, as much for the place itself (which I’m sure I’ll talk about at a later date) as for the friends I made whilst there. I organically ended up in a gang of solo travellers from different parts of the world, split roughly equally […]

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Namibia

Astonishing, alien landscapes. A scam artist with a busload of Zimbabwean migrants. The most magical skies my eyes have beheld. The ghastliest tour operators ever. Animal friends for days and days. And perhaps the worst place on the planet to be plant-based. My time in Namibia was a tale of maddeningly wild contrasts – though

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Mount Kilimanjaro

I’ve been fortunate enough to have suffered a whole array of near-death experiences at this stage in life. And of all those, summiting Kilimanjaro is the one that featured the most prolonged physical agony – but it’s also the one that I cherish most, and perhaps the only one that I look back upon with

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