by Matthew Allison | Nov 27, 2020 | Africa
November 2020: After my Kilimanjaro climb was over, my friends and I stayed in Zanzibar Island for two nights of rest and relaxation at the Zuri 5 Star hotel on a white sand beach. Zanzibar is a large semi-autonomous tropical paradise island that is part of Tanzania...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 21, 2020 | Africa
Climbing to the Roof of Africa-Kilimanjaro When your goal is to travel to every country in Africa, it is inevitable that you will eventually feel a beckoning to climb Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. For many years I wanted to climb the mountain but I was...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 18, 2020 | Africa
November 2020: Chad is a vast country, and aside from Zakouma National Park in the south, I believe its most fascinating regions lie in the northern Sahara Desert. As part of my quest to visit every country in the world, I had long looked forward to visiting Chad—but...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 30, 2019 | Africa
November 2019: I had two full days/1 night in Guinea Bissau, which I planned to make good use of. My plan didn’t start as intended when my morning flight on Air Senegal from senegal to Bissau was cancelled. I was at the airport when I discovered the news and had...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 21, 2019 | Africa
November 2019: I visited Senegal twice. In Senegal I only had one goal..to visit Gorée Island. My first Senegal visit was via on a one-night stop-over from Mali enroute to Sierra Leone. In Mali, I met this loud and boisterous American security contractor, who checked...
by Matthew Allison | Nov 17, 2019 | Africa
November 2019: My favorite travel destinations tend to be islands, especially seldom-visited island nations. One of the highlights of my travels is São Tomé, a former Portuguese colony with a mysterious, mountainous interior covered in rainforests, dotted with...
