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Despite being extravangantly beautiful Taranaki is skipped by travelers who follow the North island-South island itinerary way too often. Which is unfortunate, because not only is getting close and personal with Taranaki volcano one truly enjoyable experience but taking your time Read more…

All we hear about Africa in the United States are stories about conflict, famine, disease, HIV/AIDS, and hunger. The news tends to be so negative that it desensitizes people from the problems, makes people feel powerless, hardens us from doing something about it, and even scares them Read more…

The North Island is designed for tourism – beaches with calm and clear waters, guesthouses and hostels everywhere. It is nice but I prefer a more low-key scene: Read more…

Taller than Niagara Falls, twice as wide with 275 cascades spread in a horsehoe shape over nearly two miles of the Iguazu River, Iguazú Falls are the result of a volcanic eruption which left yet another large crack in the earth. During the rainy season of Read more…

Good-looking, fun-loving, sporty and sociable. If Cape Town was in the dating game that’s how her profile would read. And – for once – it’s all true. The Mother City of South Africa occupies one of the world’s most stunning locations, with an iconic mountain slap-bang in her centre. Read more…

Hluhluwe-Umfolozi ,(now known as the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park located 280 km north of Durban, is the oldest proclaimed park in Africa. It consists of 960 km² (96,000 ha) of hilly topography in central Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and is known for its rich wildlife and conservation efforts. Read more…

The Tsitsikamma National Park is a coastal reserve on the Garden Route in South Africa. It is well known for indigenous forests, dramatic coastline, and the Otter Trail. On 6 March 2009 it was amalgamated with the Wilderness National Park and various other areas of land to form the Garden Route National Park. Read more…

The tabletop peaks of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg range, which form the boundary between South Africa and the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, offer some of the country’s most awe-inspiring landscapes. This vast 243, 000-hectare sweep of basalt summits and buttresses are so recognisably South African that they’ve become tourist-brochure clichés. Read more…

Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers 18,989 square kilometres (7,332 sq mi) and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west. Read more…

Giza or Gizah (Arabic: الجيزة‎, transliterated el-Gīzah) is the third largest city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile river, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo. Along with Shubra El-Kheima, Cairo and Helwan, the 4 cities form the Province of Greater Cairo metropolis. Read more…

Waza National Park (French: Parc national de Waza) is a national park in Far North Province, Cameroon. It was founded in 1934, albeit as a hunting reserve, and covers a total of 1,700 km². The park became a National Park in 1968, and a UNESCO biosphere reserve in 1979. Read more…

Volcanic range extending about 120 miles (193 km) along the northern part of the Nigeria-Cameroon border from the Benue River (south) to Mora, Cameroon (north). The mountains rise to more than 3,500 feet (1,100 m) above sea level. During the colonial period they provided the border between the British and French Cameroons. Read more…

Kribi is a beach resort and sea port in Cameroon, lying on the Gulf of Guinea coast, at the mouth of the Kienké River. It has an estimated population of 60,000(2007). It services sea traffic in the Gulf of Guinea and also lies near the terminus of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline. Read more…