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London dweller with a penchant for the remoter destinations that the world has to offer. Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and always on the look out for an unusual tribal festival!
Kongou Falls, Gabon
When Hollywood producers of the most recent Tarzan blockbuster wanted to film in an achingly exotic land, full of dense equatorial jungle, fast flowing … View Post Tassi Camp, Loango National Park
A night at the Tassi Camp, ensconced in the wildest depths of Gabon's Loango NP is a must to truly appreciate "Africa's last Eden." View Post Tracking Western Lowland Gorillas, Gabon
Less polished than its East African peers perhaps, but visiting the lowland gorillas in the unique bio-diversity of Loango National Park, Gabon, is an … View Post Lowland Gorillas, Loango National Park, Gabon (2 min film)
Recently habituated, Loango’s lowland gorillas are a rare and little known opportunity to visit these amazing creatures. View Post Loango National Park – Getting There
Just getting to Gabon's Loango National Park is half the adventure. Read my experiential guide right here... View Post Loango National Park, Gabon
Equatorial jungle, Lowland gorillas, forest elephants, white sandy beaches and 'surfing' hippos. Gabon's Loango NP is my definition of luxury travel. View Post Ganvie Stilt Village, Benin
Built to escape the marauding Fon warriors of the 16th century, today the stilt village of Ganvie, in the middle of Lake Nokoue, still … View Post Dahomey Palaces, Benin
A deadly female guard of "Amazons" once protected the Dahomey King's Palaces. Visiting today is all a lot easier... View Post In Search of Followers: Voodoo Festival, Allada
The Allada Voodoo Festival in Benin is a colourful and orchestrated affair... View Post Voodoo Festival, Benin
The annual Voodoo Festival held across Benin on 10th January is a spectacle of religion, mysticism and animal sacrifice. View Post Zhangye Danxia Geopark, China
Ribbons of reds, oranges and yellows slice through the rock, to create a rainbow vista contained only by the contours of the jagged mountain … View Post Crescent Lake, Dunhuang, China
For the thirsty Silk Road traveller it must have been an extraordinary sight. Small, sparkling like diamonds but more valuable than any gem stone … View Post Turpan, on the Silk Road, China
Stark and arid, there are few water courses to sustain life. Following the Silk Road east from Ürümqi, I was still skirting the … View Post Kashgar Sunday Market, China
“Even before there was money, there was a Sunday bazaar in Kashgar.” View Post Dharamsala, India
Dharamsala possesses a raw mountainous and cultural beauty that has touched generations of my family. in 1943 my grandfather wrote... View Post Embers of Shimla, India
A walk down The Mall Road in Shimla is to walk back in time to the colonial era opulence of the British Raj. View Post Golden Temple, Amritsar
"Next door was the kitchen where cauldrons the size of hot tubs simmered vegetarian curries and dhaals, stirred by spoons the size of spades. " View Post Wagah Border Closing Ceremony
Every night, the flag lowering ceremony at the Wagah border post is a flamboyantly patriotic affair between India and Pakistan. View Post 