Welcome to Episode 13 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast. Again, this pod…
Category: Africa
Ah, Africa. The first continent I set foot in outside of home, and a place that keeps drawing me back. Over the course of my backpacking/travelling life I’ve been to several distinct regions: the Maghreb, parts of West Africa, Ethiopia, and a trail through the centre of southern Africa.
Despite this, there’s still a lot I’ve never been to that intrigues me. On these posts I give an overview of my adventures of backpacking in Africa. I find religion and meet up with some elephants. Then I cross troublesome borders (sometimes due to my own ineptitude) and come face to face with colonial legacies. I explore the history we’re not taught about in British schools. And I chase waterfalls and find that, even here, climbing hills doesn’t necessarily lead to great views.
West Africa and The Atlantic Slave Trade
I’ve alluded to this before, but remarkably, as Brits, we don’t really learn too much about…
Introduction to Voodoo in West Africa
Voodoo. It’s a word with a certain … image, cultivated by American gothic horror films mixed…
Kingdoms of West Africa
Before arriving in West Africa, I knew almost nothing about its history or its kingdoms. I’d…
Five Days in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is not the most common destinations for tourists. In fact, I’m fairly certain the…
Crossing Borders in West Africa
I made four border crossings in West Africa on my adventure – I wrote a specific…
Visiting Ghana’s Mole National Park
Africa. To the average Brit, the very name invokes images of vast grasslands, plains with shrubberies,…
What to Expect when Backpacking in West Africa
West Africa isn’t generally the first place on the average British backpacker’s itinerary, but as you…
The £800 travel mistake
As I write this today (30 April 2015), it is exactly a year since I ventured…
How not to cross the Benin-Togo border
Barefoot and bagless, lost at an international border with just my passport and some money; I…
What to expect on buses in West Africa
Have you ever been tied up? Seriously. Have you ever had your partner tie you, with…