Day 1 & 2 – Caracas I arrived in Caracas in the late afternoon on a Saturday. Based on everything that I ever heard about the city, I expected it to be a crime-ridden place where very few people ventured…
For the non-extreme travelers out there, there is one thing that I need to make clear before I go much further. West Africa is hard. Like really, really hard. This is probably the one region of the world that many…
Every since I first saw a photo of Timbuktu, I dreamt about seeing one of the fabled mud cities of the Sahara. Although the security situation in Mali hasn’t been particularly great, it is still possible to travel there. I…
While there are some places on my travel bucket list that I have been wanting to visit for years, Socotra was actually a relatively new addition to my wish list. I knew virtually nothing about it until about a year…
Many travelers who venture out far into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa do so to have the ultimate threesome – not that kind of threesome, get your head out of the gutter. The threesome I am talking…