A few years ago, I did my first round through West Africa, visiting Senegal, Gambia, the Guineas, Cabo Verde, etc. It was a tough trip in many ways. I was in the process of starting a new remote job, was…

Madagascar is one of those countries that has always seemed so mystical, so magical, so unobtainable. In my mind, this was one of those places that people who work for National Geographic get to go to, not girls from crappy…

Traveling through Central Africa isn’t easy. Language barriers, visa issues, corruption, and logistical problems can make this the traveller’s worst nightmare. So, it probably comes as no surprise that this section of the world was one that was I dragging…

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…

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…