Article search results

Agadez and the Air Mountains | Barnaby Rogerson

took some time for it to sink in that we were not looking at yesterday’s picnics but Neolithic hearths - completely undisturbed since they had been abandoned around 4,000 years ago

• Read more

Journey into the Red Zone | Mark Eveleigh

My would-be ambushers were a bandit tribe known as the Dahalo, who looked like they were set to make my trek through the lawless region of the Zone Rouge more of an adventure than I had bargained for

• Read more

Livingstonia Walk | Jasper Winn | Malawi, Nyika National Park, Livingstonia

The passing of thousands of hooves and paws had cut the narrow paths so deep into the land that one’s boots shuffled along in their grooves as if we were jogging along an inverted tightrope

• Read more

Mali with or without Timbuktu | Fiona Dunlop | Mali, Niger River, Timbuktou

If you’re after a mind-boggling ethnic mosaic, being punts down the mighty Niger and seeing mud architecture that could have been designed by Gaudi before he discovered colour - then this is your kind of place

• Read more

San Trance Dance | Tim Elliott

The more you learn about the San, or “The Real People” as they sometimes call themselves, the more remarkable they seem

• Read more

The Dragons Backbone | Caroline Major | China, Guangxi, Ping An

His skin changes chameleon-like with the seasons; granny apple green as the rice ripens and is harvested and then a reflective coppery brown when the terraces lie fallow. His scales are the silver, grey and green...

• Read more