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A Spell in Stone Town | Nick Maes | Tanzania, Zanzibar & Islands, Stone Town
I was dropped off on Kenyatta Road just as a call to prayer wheeled out from a nearby minaret and spiralled into the sky
Backwater America | Nick Maes | United States, New York State, Saugerties
I wave goodbye to Manhattan, listening to the evocative clanking of a bell and the doleful siren song of the train bouncing across water the colour of Prada tan trousers
Nothing prepared me for the crater's edge: Dante eat your heart out. Curling tendrils of steam rose into the air on clouds of chemical gauze
Chinese New Year | Nick Maes | China, Shanghai, Shanghai
Red fire-cracker ammo belts three metres long were thrown into the roadside, enormous Roman Candles, teeny rockets and extra-large double bangers went off constantly. The noise was incredible
Cruising in Xitang | Nick Maes
Canals dissect twisting narrow lanes and pathways, rendering the community traffic-free and boat friendly. Worn stone steps lead down to the waters and hopelessly pretty bridges span them
In adjusting my eyes to the sudden darkness of the Tranquillity Room, I accidentally knocked a switch plunging the becalmed inmates into a sudden fury of light
It is said that many of the Baobab trees are older than Christ; but then all of equatorial Africa’s east coast is riddled with hearsay
Ibo Island | Nick Maes | Mozambique, other regions of Mozambique, Ibo Island
It was then that I found something that I didn’t know I had lost – the quality of time I remember as a child. The day became impossibly long and minutes stretched to hours
Impenetrable Made Easy | Nick Maes
Uganda has had a bad press for too long - reaction to my recent visit was predictably cliched, homing in on guerrillas and gorillas
Island-Hopping in Mozambique | Nick Maes | Mozambique, North Coast, Pemba
The land below looks untouched by man; baobabs and scrub tumble down to white beaches and an ocean of preposterous, impossible azures
Running with the Rhinos | Nick Maes
it's not every day that you get the opportunity to scratch a rhinoceros behind the ears - or give her horn a tentative rub - and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous
It is lazy and gossipy - the equivalent of taking a holiday in a Graham Greene novel
Shanghai: City Portrait | Nick Maes | China, Shanghai, Shanghai
Shanghai’s modern skyline would be recognised immediately by Buck Rogers. The ever-taller, preposterously capped skyscrapers look like they were designed by a comic-book illustrator from the 1950’s
Shropshire and Offa's Dyke | Nick Maes | United Kingdom, Midlands, Shropshire
In Clungunford you’ll find The Bird on the Rock, possibly the greatest tearoom on the planet
Surfing for Stars | Nick Maes | United States, Hawaii, Oahu
An exotic locale favoured by Hollywood's stars since the 1920s, Hawaii is the place to go to catch up with the celebrities while they rest up. And if you don't happen to notice them, you're unlikely to be too bothered anyway
Wave Theory | Nick Maes | Australia, New South Wales, Byron Bay
It is impossible to get any further east on the Australian mainland than Cape Byron - a ridiculously photogenic finger of land that prods the Pacific and stirs up waves