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View ArticleMorocco with teenagers
Morocco is the closest place to London where you can feel the furthest away. Just a short three-and-a-half-hour flight and you are transported to an ancient and exotic land, rich in culture and with an...
View ArticleZambia: A snappy ending
Phil Clisby takes his family on a walking safari in South Luangwa National Park Our guide Yotam talks a load of crap. Puku poo, buffalo poo, elephant poo and any other poo you care to mention, to be...
View ArticleMalawi: A curio-us encounter
Phil Clisby meets a fascinating salesman on the shores of Lake Malawi I awake early after a disturbed night’s sleep, convinced that rain was drumming down on the roof of our rondavel all night. I open...
View ArticleMalawi: Off-roading
Phil Clisby gets off the beaten track in Liwonde National Park “How can you tell if it’s an African elephant?” asks Thom, our guide. “Really?” I think. “Because it’s ears…” “Yes!” “… are shaped like...
View ArticleZambia: The thrill of the chase
Phil Clisby recalls witnessing lions on the hunt in South Luangwa National Park “I want to see a male lion and a kill, please,” says Jordan, a fellow guest on our safari vehicle for our last drive in...
View ArticleLessons from the Likoni Ferry
Our man in Nairobi, Jackson Biko, has time for reflection as he waits to board the Likoni Ferry. If you want to test your patience for life you don’t have to drive in India’s traffic. Just come to...
View ArticleDRC and Tanzania: The tangential road
Phil Clisby tells tales of the trials and tribulations of changing money in Africa and a run-in with the police 20 years ago There’s nothing quite like the feeling of rolling around on a table covered...
View ArticleTake me to the river
It’s 1 January 1993 in Zaire. In part one of an epic journey through what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Travel Africa’s Publication Manager Phil Clisby recounts what can only be...
View ArticleMuddy hell
It’s still January 1993 in Zaire. In part two of his epic journey through what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Travel Africa’s Publications Manager Phil Clisby heads for a date with the...
View ArticleBoats, trains and automobiles
It’s 1993 and Mozambique has just been through a horrendous civil war. Phil Clisby, who is among the first 10 European travellers to venture there for some 15 years, describes his journey into the...
View ArticleGhost Town
Phil Clisby journeys into the Namib Desert to discover what is left of Kolmanskop. Photographs by Christoph Hilger. As we neared the derelict diamond-mining town of Kolmanskop, the road became more of...
View ArticleFull of Zim and vigour
Phil Clisby continues his African odyssey. It’s June 1993, and he is making his way around Zimbabwe, from the Eastern Highlands to the Victoria Falls We’re standing at the side of the road, thumbs in...
View ArticleTravel Africa Extra launched
Over the nearly twenty years since we started Travel Africa magazine, one of my biggest frustrations has been not having enough space to run all the features we have wanted to. Although we try our best...
View ArticleLet’s get this show on the road
Phil Clisby recounts a recent(ish) self-drive trip around Namibia, accompanied by his soon-to-be-wife and two-year-old son. In part one, he journeys from Windhoek to Sossusvlei via Erongo and...
View ArticleDriven to attraction
In part two of Phil Clisby’s self-drive trip around Namibia, he and his family travel to the NamibRand, Fish River Canyon and the Quiver Tree Forest, with a bit of horseplay in-between We were on the...
View ArticleDRC and Tanzania: The tangential road
Phil Clisby tells tales of the trials and tribulations of changing money in Africa and a run-in with the police 20 years ago There’s nothing quite like the feeling of rolling around on a table covered...
View ArticleTake me to the river
It’s 1 January 1993 in Zaire. In part one of an epic journey through what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Travel Africa’s Publication Manager Phil Clisby recounts what can only be...
View ArticleMuddy hell
It’s still January 1993 in Zaire. In part two of his epic journey through what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Travel Africa’s Publications Manager Phil Clisby heads for a date with the...
View ArticleBoats, trains and automobiles
It’s 1993 and Mozambique has just been through a horrendous civil war. Phil Clisby, who is among the first 10 European travellers to venture there for some 15 years, describes his journey into the...
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