Elevated Blood Moons In Zanzibar I’d never seen a moonrise until I traveled to Tanzania. I’ve seen my fair share of spectacular sunsets, and sunrises..but a moonrise is just something I’d never thought about until I landed on Paje Beach in Zanzibar. There I was, lying on a sunbed chatting with some cool people I’d met from the hostel, when the familiar big, reddish...
How I Met Myself Abroad I didn’t find myself. But I had one hell of an introduction. I’m what you would call an experienced traveler. Like most naive, young things, my first dreams of traveling involved jet setting off with a backpack, shacking up in an Ashram somewhere and finding myself in my very own version of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. Yeah, that didn’t happen. Instead...
The Strangest Thing I Saw On a Plane *Warning* The pictures don’t do this story justice. Frankly, they are rubbish as I didn’t have the presence of mind to take a video. But I just had to write about this anyway because I haven’t read about this anywhere elseI was on the Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Tanzania on November 1st. It had been a long, 20 hour flight...
Hunted By a Lion: My Unforgettable Night in Serengeti It was one of the most surreal and frightening experiences of my life.I was sitting upright in a tent in the middle of Serengeti National Park at 5am in the morning listening to a lion roaring just outside. The most disturbing thing is, this wasn’t the first time it happened either. I had taken a 5 day budget...
Easiest Places To Travel During Covid (November 2020) Disclaimer: Please consider that the information in this blog was correct at the time of writing. In the brave new world of coronavirus, restrictions and regulations can change in a nanosecond and what was true a day ago may not be true right now. Also remember that just because you may not have to quarantine in...
Sombre Weed Tales & Champagne Boat Tours In The City of Bikes The first thing that most people do when they land in Amsterdam is smoke weed.But after having a particularly unfortunate encounter with the herb in the past, I decided to give it a miss. The city has so much more to offer, and I wanted my adventure to be a little more unique.So I was pumped when I...
A Wild Night In The Cappadocian Fairy Chimneys It was a night I’ll never forget.My legs felt like they were on fire and sleep eluded me for the entire night. As far as I could tell, the French guy beside me didn’t get any sleep either. His name was Louis, by the way.During those rare moments when I did start drifting off into sleep, it was just as quickly broken by...
How One Man’s Travel Visions Inspired a Media Empire Ranzo’s vision is to inspire people to look beyond their cultural boundaries and repair the image of black people around the world. He runs a Youtube channel called Black Experience Japan (BEJ), which interviews black people who have travelled to live and work in Asia. The aim is to highlight the wide...
It is almost difficult to imagine a world without social-distancing amidst the surge of a deadly pandemic. Nowadays all the media seem to report are stories of the death toll going up or airlines shutting down because of COVID-19. And to say that now isn’t the best time to travel is probably the understatement of the year. But among all of the doom and gloom, there...
Buddhist Adventures On The Crystal Island of Koh Phangan Thailand was easily the most memorable, tropical country I’ve been to. It has everything you could possibly want in a sunny paradise: beaches, palm trees, parties and breathtaking islands. But that wasn’t why I went backpacking northern Thailand. I went because I wanted to learn more about the country I’d heard...
