Africa

This cruise captures the imagination like few other adventures and all in just seven days.

Short on time and money, I did a safari on a shoestring. It was both frustrating and profound.

Spiky forests, dancing lemurs, giraffe weevils – no matter how many Attenborough documentaries you’ve seen, nothing prepares you for the real thing.

Souvenirs can remind you of the place you’ve visited, and also why buying them is not always a good idea.

It is the world’s largest archaeological museum, built at an estimated cost of more than $1.5 billion, and it’s 11 years late.

The northern white rhino is on the brink of extinction. But a laboratory in Germany may now have the means to save them.

It’s kind of fun, the first day you get stranded overseas. The next day we wait for the plane again, and realise we’re stuck again. And again...

This ancient trading city on the Nile is the most wonderfully scenic of all Egypt’s riverside towns, with plenty of energy and attitude to match.

Africa isn’t the location that always springs to mind for a car journey, but it’s one that will provide endless adventures and memories.

We’re not here for the fang-and-claw dramas of the savannah, but to feel the majesty of the world’s second-largest tropical rainforest.