Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Everyone has different reasons for why they like to travel, and their destinations of choice vary just as much. Some love to visit noisy, bustling foreign cities, others prefer the quiet tranquility of a secluded beach. Then of course, there are the travelers who truly like to get away from it all. They prefer to visit remote wilderness places, far off the beaten path, with few, if any, amenities. ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Where To Go To Truly Get Away From It All
Feb 16th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Everyone has different reasons for why they like to travel, and their destinations of choice vary just as much. Some love to visit noisy, bustling foreign cities, others prefer the quiet tranquility of a secluded beach. Then of course, there are the travelers who truly like to get away from it all. They prefer to visit remote wilderness places, far off the beaten path, with few, if any, amenities. ...Tour d'Afrique Off and Running!
Jan 15th, 2009 at 8:30AM: The 2009 edition of the Tour d'Afrique got underway last Sunday, with cyclists setting out from Cairo, Egypt on a 7317 mile long race to Cape Town, South Africa. In between they'll pass through the Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, and Namibia, fostering international goodwill along the way, while raising funds for environmental protection and promoting cycling in Africa. ...Five endangered places you should see now, before they're gone
Oct 27th, 2007 at 10:51AM: If you knew a place was going to disappear soon, even if it wasn't one of your top must-see destinations, would you visit it just in case you regretted never seeing it later on? Our brand-new sister blog, the Green Daily, recently published this post on vacation destinations that are on the brink of being extinct. A word to the wise: see them now or you might never get a chance. Here's what made ...Chinese Tourists Try to Copy Superstar's Honeymoon
Sep 1st, 2007 at 8:33PM: If tourism in Europe soared to all-time highs in August, they have Yao Ming and his new bride, Ye Li, to blame. The Chinese superstar basketball player married Li, also a basketball player, in China in August and promptly whisked his new wife to Europe for the honeymoon. The result was many adoring fans trying to book a trip similar trip to Europe, hoping to bump into the new couple or at least ...Travel to Africa?
Sep 21st, 2006 at 12:28PM: We try to cover Africa here as best we can. Adrienne has done many a "Word" feature on the continent, and we have some favorite places there where we've been (Morocco) and some where we'd LIKE to go (Namibia). But the unfortunate fact is that Africa is in the news a lot these days for a lot of nasty things. Starvation, war, genocide. Yo might say Africa is in a world of hurt. But is that really ...Namibian Dunes
Sep 13th, 2006 at 12:01PM: Something in me wants to make a dumb joke about "The Spice", perhaps to drop a name like Muad'Dib and see how many people get it. My suspicions are that we don't have a HUGE number of Dune fans out there, but I'll have to confess I was a passionate, rabid devotee of the Frank Herbert series. All of which leads me to this article from Namibia, which has nothing to do with worms or oil or Muadib, ...Top Ten Scenic Routes from the Sky
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Aug 7th, 2006 at 2:35PM: I'm not a window guy. At 6'4" I find it horribly uncomfortable to cram myself into the window seat. When I do get stuck there, however, I spend most of the flight with my face pressed against the window like a ten-year old on his first flight.
Naturally some flights are better than others for sightseeing. The Telegraph (UK) interviewed ten pilots to find out which routes were their favorites for ...Helicopter Safari Africa
Jul 16th, 2006 at 8:58PM: Just like Neil's Machu Picchu piece some folks might debate doing the whole African safari thing by helicopter, but I'm totally a fan of helicopter sightseeing. For one, my last trip to Hawai'i had me foaming at the mouth to shoot more aerial photography of the places we so often see from one perspective. Now am I suggesting going out to see the Big 5 by helicopter only - of course not. This type ...Branjolina Helping African Tourism
May 1st, 2006 at 8:05AM: Karen posted about the newest do-gooder exploits of Branjolina and we just couledn't resist adding our two cents here. People Magazine reports that the both-divorced duo are personally propping up the tourism industry of Namibia through their efforts to...well, just by visiting the country. Yes, here they are awaiting the birth of their child, and all the magazine covers, all the E television ...Spring Break: Adventurous Family Vacations
Mar 20th, 2006 at 2:35PM: Spring break is just around the corner.
If you haven't booked your vacation yet, and don't fancy entertaining the kids at home, The Sunday Times has come up with an impressive list of family vacation options that promise to be adventurous and exciting. Be warned, however; these are not your ordinary Disneyworld-type of family getaways. We're talking about camel safaris in Egypt, dune riding in ...Africa Travel: Namibia
Feb 20th, 2006 at 6:45PM: Namibia is a South African country bordering the South Atlantic Ocean between Angola and South Africa. The complex shaped, wind swept sand dunes found in country look so perfect and painted it's almost eerie. I'm pretty sure I mentioned them before or the country's Skeleton Coast known from tales of shipwrecked vessels and lost sailors wandering for miles in search for water, if only a drop and ...Quad Biking in Africa
Oct 12th, 2005 at 9:13AM:
Quad biking the sand dunes of Namibia - what a cool way to explore the land! Writer Marie Javins recently shared her African adventure biking tale, which sounds like loads of fun. I'm not sure which company Marie used for her excursion, but I did find this one operating in Swakopmund and it could very well be the one she went with.
Marie does mention that she realizes that quad biking might not ...Calvin & Sharon's Africa Travel Blog
Aug 9th, 2005 at 11:30PM: Every time I see someone blogging about their experiences while in Africa, I swear to myself that I too will save enough money to get to Africa - fast! It's so expensive, but the memories gained have to be priceless. Calvin and Sharon have evoked that feeling and sudden impulse to fly across the Atlantic once again in colorful recounts of Namibia and Botswana in their Impulse Adventure travel ...Wind Speed
Mar 28th, 2005 at 9:20AM: Björn Dunkerbeck is seeking to capture one record he doesn't have: the World Sailing Speed Record. But he's close. Dunkerbeck recently hit 44.35 knots at the Walvis Bay Speed week in Namibia, a millenium best. He remains confident that he can break the 12-year World Sailing Speed Record of 46.52 knots (86.16 km/h).
That record was established in Australian in 1993 by a catamaran called ...Top Adventure Lodges
Mar 25th, 2005 at 10:41AM:
From Austin, Texas to the Palmwag Rhino Camp in the Namib Desert in Namibia, Outside Magazine has listed its top ten adventure lodges around the globe. It's a wonderfully comprehensive list, globally-speaking, and let me just say that one of my favorite places on earth is counted among them: Torres del Paine. I know the lodge their talking about here, which is a fine place, but to be honest, the ...Namibia's Skeleton Coast
Mar 11th, 2005 at 10:38AM: There is something eerie about the Skeleton Coast found in Namibia, that beckons me making me want to explore the region badly. Perhaps it's the fact that the coast's name refers to shipwrecks and whale bones that litter the beaches. It's a safari unlike most seeing you won't spot much game, but the beautiful dunes and desolate lands best seen at sunrise or sunset make up the missing animal ...Sandboarding Junkies
Nov 28th, 2004 at 1:26PM: Here's another article on the hot, literally, new sport of sandboarding, which is all the rage in Namibia where the dunes are tall and the safety regulations are, well, non-existent. One comapny running these trips is called Alter-Action. Created by Chris Jason and Beth Sarro in 1994, the company is the first professional sandboarding operation on the Namibian Coast. They say they have found the ...Sand's Up!
Oct 15th, 2004 at 12:08AM:
You gotta admit this is pretty damn cool. Dune surfing in Namibia. It is done in other places as well, but there is a fine allure to doing this in Africa. The sport, if that's what we're already calling it, is done standing up, or lying on your belly on a kind of boogie board, and one speeds down the sandy slope at speeds of up to 50 mph. This is something I've gotta try! ...
