Africa Travel Articles

"Romance is a word used all too lightly in the travel industry. With a romantic pessimism in mind, Marco set about finding stories of romance in Africa that would spare him the fool's gold and reveal only the small, hidden gems of travellers' real experiences. What he discovered washed all his scepticism away. He found stories of romance in Africa that moved, inspired and eventually rekindled his faith in how people celebrate being in love..."

"It is both an honour and a privilege to be granted an audience with the last of the mountain gorillas. Alison went to Rwanda with her fingers crossed. She had only one chance to get face to face with the mountain gorillas..."

"Rwanda lies on the eastern rim of the geological phenomenon known as the Albertine Rift. This rift incorporates ice fields, active volcanoes, hot springs, bamboo jungle, alpine vegetation, forests and savannah. The Albertine Rift is one of Africa's most important biodiversity conservation sites..."

"The unquestionable natural beauty of Africa is inseparable from the dark side of that nature, and Rwanda is perhaps the epitome of this principle. The 1994 genocide is a defining feature for this generation of Rwandans and its memory has not faded for them. This article describes the tender and terrible background against which any experience of Rwanda is set..."