Trip ideas
The endless bay
Water sports, beaches and shopping by day, then restaurants and nightclubs after sunset: All the attractions of Mauritius Island are concentrated in Grand Baie.
In...
Where the Ganges reaches Africa
Mark Twain wrote that Mauritius was used as a model for heaven. The archipelago in the Indian Ocean is also a holy centre of...
Dive from your bed
The Underwater Room is the most exclusive room at The Manta Resort, an idyllic restaurant on Pemba Island, in Zanzibar. The room is a...
Travel guides
One of the greatest parties on Earth
Once a year, in the middle of the South African desert, a short-lived town devoted to art is set up for the sole purpose...
Christchurch: the improvised city
Five years ago an earthquake devastated New Zealand's second largest city. But there's something it didn't destroy: the fighting character of its residents.
In Christchurch...
Lalibela: Ethiopia’s Jerusalem
The Lasta mountains conceal the monastic city of Lalibela, whose temples were cut out of volcanic rock, to emulate the Holy Lands on African...
