I was eating dinner on the wrong river. The boat chugged quietly in the twilight as a waiter brought the soup and poured the wine. The silhouettes of palm trees were dissolving into darkness after exploding out of a carmine sunset.
Hippos snorted as we approached and, at lulls in the conversation, I could hear [...]
18
Mar
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18
Mar
It’s a mystery. In a landscape of flat Botswana bush, the only landmark that will tell us we’re on track is a log bridge that should have materialised several kilometres ago.
We stop to pore over the map. It’s not much help. It’s covered in GPS coordinates, which would be very useful, if we had [...]
18
Mar
Teeming with game and birdlife, Botswana�s Okavango Delta is one of the world�s best wildlife destinations. With the recent introduction of the “Source of the Delta Helicopter Excursions” and Orient Express Safaris� luxurious water-based camp, Eagle Island, visitors are offered an exhilarating combination of helicopter and boat travel which provides the ultimate safari experience during [...]
16
Mar
Go See”DR. SEUSS’ HORTON HEARS A WHO!” // The inventive gang at Blue Sky Studios have concocted an ebullient full-length feature from Dr. Seuss’ slender comic verse narrative about an elephant whose big ears detect a whole world on a dust-speck. Sun score: A-
“THE BAND’S VISIT” // Israeli director Eran Kolirin has made a rapturously [...]
14
Mar
My yearning began a year ago, when my son downloaded photos of Aztec ruins for his history project. The pictures seemed such pale representations of a once-vibrant culture. I longed to let him climb the steps of Aztecs’ temples and I even found myself investigating airfares to Mexico City.
So when Patrick, 11, chose Mapungubwe [...]
14
Mar
By Bridget Hilton-Barber
If you still think Limpopo province consists of a few old towns and a lot of dry bush, think again. South Africa’s wildest and most unexplored province is hot, hip and happening. Here’s a handy A-Z guide through the wild frontiers of this amazing province.
Africa
Limpopo is an essentially African province, a province [...]
14
Mar
Once a lovers’ getaway, Habaniya Tourist Village in western Iraq became a refugee camp during some of the fiercest fighting since the fall of Baghdad. Now Amr al-Dulaimi hopes to turn it into a romantic haven again.
Dulaimi runs the crumbling tourist resort, formerly a favourite wedding and honeymoon destination for Iraqis. After the 2003 US-led [...]
11
Mar
As if it’s not bad enough that the roads are so uneven, now people were painting them. “What are you painting on the street,” we asked a woman who was painting a brown liquid over the dirt.
“It’s cow shit,” said an onlooker.
We shrugged and continued looking for a vibey restaurant. After finding one and ordering [...]
11
Mar
India is the land of train journeys. The names on the departures board alone stir the traveller’s soul. The Howrah Mail, the Nilgiri Express, the Jammu Tawi Fast - there’s romance even in the Trichur-Calicut Passenger. Having spent the last two years filming The Story Of India for the BBC, I have often been asked [...]
11
Mar
MADHYA PRADESH, India — For three days we’d been tracking tiger in India, and by the end of our last game drive in Bandhavgarh National Park we despaired of ever seeing the elusive cat. Then, as we slowly crossed a low, stone bridge over a stream, a big tiger nonchalantly ambled across the dirt road [...]
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