Lake Volta was the first stop on our recent tour of West Africa. It was lovely to get out of the chaotic city of Accra and into the Ghanaian countryside. The Volta region is little-visited,...
Alleppey, Kerala
Our last stop before returning to Cochin at the end of our two-month trip around southern India was Alleppey, 'Venice of the East', or at least I thought it was! As is our wont, I went on...
Kollam – the southern approach to Kerala’s backwaters
Our reason for including Kollam in our itinerary was so that we could travel from there by ferry to our next stop, Alleppey. In the event, we had missed the last boat of the season by a...
Georgetown, The Gambia
Outside of the capital, Banjul, Georgetown is the oldest town in The Gambia. It is seldom visited by tourists, though, as, from the coastal resorts, getting there involves a trip on the Barra...
Alex Haley’s Roots Cruise, The Gambia – the story they don’t tell you!
The day trip billed as ‘The Roots Cruise’, which takes holidaymakers from their resorts, to Banjul, and then up the Gambia River to Albreda, Jufureh and James Island, is probably the most...
Cruising the River Gambia National Park
A Moscow river cruise
As is the case in...
A Trip on the Perfume River, Hue
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From Saigon to Phnom Pehn
When planning our two-week holiday to Cambodia, we naturally wanted to include Phnom Pehn and it...
