The Colour of Travel

August 19, 2023

Maasai Conservation Lands, Volcanoes & Sour Milk

At the viewpoint, the late afternoon is spent with the sun setting over Longido and the banded colours of twilight over Meru and Kilimanjaro at height
August 16, 2023

Chameleons, Cloud Forests & the Nyika

Our guide, has an incredible ability to find chameleons along the trail. He lets us walk past a huge specimen, stop, raise his hand in a tut-tut and then point out the weird looking creature somehow floating on the end of branch
August 12, 2023

Bagamoyo, Palm Trees & Dhows

Each rope line, sometimes a hundred metres long, stretches from the top of the beach to the floating dhow on the ocean
August 7, 2023

Over The Eastern Arc Mountains, Bats & The Coast

We savour the meal in the secret city garden with the large trees, the tropical lianas and the bevy of local Tanzanian ladies chattering to one another
August 4, 2023

Social Enterprise, Cracked Roofracks & Pizza

$Social Enterprise, Cracked Roofracks & Pizza$

On some farms, animals are bred for their fluffiness and huggability. That’s what I keep on telling myself
August 2, 2023

Conservation Down the Ruaha & Acheulean Tools

The sights of Ruaha are many but one of the most defining is probably the baobab trees standing strong, pre-eminent over the surrounding landscape
July 31, 2023

Sumbawanga, Small Border Crossings & Witchcraft Begone

Small buildings of brick or corrugated metal are the norm. High roofs dominate in the south. Small communities dot the lands along the national route with larger towns and villages every twenty to thirty kilometres. The grasslands look or at least seem to be tinged with blue
July 26, 2023

Big Transit, Potholes & Lakes

This time, in 2023, we are going to make it to East Africa
November 17, 2022

Calamari, Surﬁng & Diving

Hang a left further down and you’re almost at your getaway palmtree-lined paradise on the mighty Indian Ocean
November 14, 2022

The Thirty Day Moz Run

The situ has South Africans and some other nationalities on the Mozambican side gunning for the border every few weeks and then returning after picking up a Steers burger, biltong and various other necessities in SA.