Archive for the ‘Africa’ Category

Coffee and spirituality in Ethiopia

Those are two of the main attractions of Harar, an ancient Ethiopian city that is trying to make its way onto the world’s crowded tourist map, according to this travel article. For 1,000 years, this city on a hilltop has been a center of Islamic faith in the Horn of Africa, with a forbidding, 13-foot [...]

September 27, 2007 Africa 0 Comments

Wines of South Africa

If you like wine and are interested in a slightly off-the-beaten-track vacation, perhaps you should try South Africa. The Boston Globe just ran a story about a vineyard-hopping vacation to that country. The whites who migrated to South Africa often described it as the land of milk and honey. Now, it has become known as [...]

July 2, 2007 Africa, culinary cultures 0 Comments

Discovering Victoria Falls

Michael Joseph Gross loves waterfalls. So when he heard that a group was planning a short hiking expedition to Victoria Falls in honor of the 150th anniversary of its discovery by the Scottish explorer David Livingstone, he had to go. Later, he wrote about his experiences on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border in this travel article. On [...]

March 23, 2007 Africa 0 Comments

Savoring a Kenyan sunset

In a nice essay for the Christian Science Monitor, Daniela Petrova talks about her quest to see the Big Five game animals while on safari in Kenya.  In the end, though, she passes up a chance to see a leopard in order to savor a sunset when she realizes that the pictures she sees with [...]

January 29, 2007 Africa 0 Comments

Discovering Ethiopia

Although it isn’t on many lists of popular travel destinations, Ethiopia offers an intriguing culture and some of the most spectacular sights in Africa, in particular the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela.  Joshua Hammer wrote an article for the New York Times about a recent visit to Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, the per capita income is $120 a year; tuberculosis and [...]

September 19, 2006 Africa 0 Comments

Travels in rural Ghana

Ever wanted to know what it’s like to travel in rural Africa?  Joshua Berman and his wife are in the midst of a round-the-world journey and just spent two weeks visiting villages in northeastern Ghana.  He writes about their experiences on his blog, the tranquilo traveler: We returned to Accra last night, stiff and loopy after [...]

July 14, 2006 Africa, RTW travel 0 Comments
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