Trip ideas
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...
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...
An airport where trains and planes cross paths
The only airport in the world crossed by train tracks is in New Zealand. The shared space, where railway tracks cut across the runway,...
Travel guides
A dip on the edge of the abyss
The Victoria Falls are a true spectacle in themselves, but the most intrepid travellers don’t have to settle for photographs from afar: they can...
The Urban Jungle of Madagascar
If Madagascar is like an alien island because of its avenues of baobab trees and lemur population, then the capital, Antananarivo, is the gateway...
The desert that ate Kolmanskop
It had its heyday during the first half of the 20th century, thanks to the diamonds that used to be found there. Nowadays, Kolmanskop,...
