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African Travel Articles
- About The Seychelles
The Seychelles are commonly regarded as an exotic paradise lost amid the waters of the Indian Ocean. But few people fully appreciate the floral and faunal wealth of these fascinating islands...
[more information]  Destination Report Comoros
The Comoros islands got their name from early Arab seafarers, who named this tiny archipelago Djazair al Qamar – ‘Islands of the Moon’. Probably they were referring to the crescent moon of Islam...
[more information] Indian Ocean Islands
Half-naked men, women and children sprawled in the mud. Their faces, hair, and skin were all dyed the same milkshake-brown, slick with water, as they pushed handfuls...
[more information]- Island Style
Follow the trade winds into the heart of the Indian ocean and you might discover a mythical micro-continent known to early explorers as the land of Lemuria. Jacques Marais sailed west and found the Seychelles...
[more information]  Island Yacht Cruise
Follow the trade winds into the heart of the Indian ocean and you might discover a mythical micro-continent known to early explorers as the land of Lemuria. Jacques Marais sailed west and found the...
[more information]- madagascar magic
I travelled to Madagasacar expecting Africa. I anticipated the emerald rainforest’s embrace where lemurs might lurk and orchids would miraculously bloom. I expected the spiny desert to be like another world, a surreal place...
[more information]  Magic Madagascar
Bliss out on an intoxicating island where spiny desert, granite inselbergs and virgin rainforest border on balmy Indian ocean beaches. Jacques Marais tripped into Madagascar and discovered a gentle...
[more information] The Coelacanth
On December 21st, 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, received a call from one Captain Goosen, the skipper of a local fishing trawler. He had just netted an unusual fish...
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