My research for Rough Guides, Travel Africa magazine, National Geographic Traveller and others has taken me to many parts of this fascinating continent.
For a country-by-country list of the destinations I have covered to date, please click here. I have produced writing and photography on a wide range of topics and themes, including the following.
Recent research trips
AFRICA
and the Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands
Zambia
- South Luangwa National Park
- Kasanka National Park and the annual bat migration
- Wildlife, nature, safaris, walking safaris, safari guides
- How to improve your wildlife photography on safari
- Windhoek, Swakopmund and the Northwest (Kunene region / Kaokoland / Damaraland)
- Conservancies, community-managed conservation and rural poverty reduction
- Conservation professionals in action
- Tracking and viewing desert-adapted wildlife including rhinos, elephants, lions, giraffes and antelopes
- Himba and Herero culture
- Upmarket camping safaris, self-drive safaris, guided safaris, luxury safari lodges
- Sightseeing and wildlife-watching
- Johannesburg
- Kruger National Park and the private reserves of the northeast
- Self-drive and luxury safaris
- Specialist safaris: frogging, community projects
- Cape Town: Table Mountain, sightseeing, shopping and restaurants
- Winelands and wine-tasting
- Township tourism
- Mountain hikes, levada walks, and the annual Madeira Islands Walking Festival
- Nature tours in the national park, including the island’s World Heritage listed laurel forests
- Funchal
- Sightseeing, accommodation, gastronomy and wine
- Christmas and New Year celebrations
- Floods and landsides of February 2010, and their aftermath
- Island hopping
- Property investment, sustainable development and the growth of the tourism industry
- Sightseeing, hiking, watersports, birdwatching and adventure activities
- Carnival
- Traditional music and culture
- History, colonial influences, contemporary culture
- Beaches, resorts, historic towns, rural villages
- Accommodation, eating and drinking
- Sightseeing, watersports and adventure activities
- Beaches, resorts, towns and villages
- Accommodation, eating and drinking
- Sightseeing, adventure activities and budding ecotourism
- History and culture
- Colonial towns and rocas (plantation estates)
- Fishing villages and village life
- Accommodation, eating and drinking
- Principe: Bom Bom Island, beaches, colonial history, scuba diving, quad biking and other activities
- Touring Douala and Limbé, Cameroon
- Tracking western lowland gorillas in the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, CAR
- BaAka Pygmy culture and forest lore
- Fernan-Vaz gorilla rehabilitation project, Gabon
- Game drives and river trips in Loango National Park, Gabon with Operation Loango / Africa’s Eden
- Ecotourism, adventure and cutting-edge safari experiences
- Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Tenerife
- National Parks including Mount Teide and Timanfaya
- Sightseeing and tours
- Whale and dolphin watching, hiking, watersports and other outdoor activities
- History, art and architecture including the work of César Manrique
- Beaches, resorts, country villages, volcanoes and cultural centres
- Rural tourism, including renovated rural heritage sites in Fuerteventura
- Accommodation, gastronomy and wine
- Lake of Stars Festival, Lake Malawi
- Gnawa and World Music Festival, Essaouira
- Stone Town
- Spice plantations
- Red colobus monkey sanctuary, Jozani-Chwaka Bay NP
- Swimming with dolphins, Kizimkani
- Tingatinga paintings
- Scuba diving and snorkelling
- Beaches, resorts and accommodation
- Maputo, Pemba and the Quirimbas Archipelago
- Ecotourism and community tourism
- Scuba diving
- Island hopping
- Luxury island lodges
- Colonial history and contemporary culture
- Victoria Falls, Hwange, Matobo Hills
- Sightseeing, safaris, adrenaline activities, wildlife-watching
- Hotels and safari lodges
- Effects of economic and political instability on tourism
- Sightseeing, tours and activities
- Responsible tourism and community tourism
- Birdwatching, river trips and other activities
- Beaches, resorts, towns and villages
- Accommodation, eating and drinking
- Traditional music and culture
- Okavango Delta
- Wildlife-watching and horse riding
- Elephant research
- Luxury safari lodges
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