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The Rise of ‘Empty’ Escapes

Today, luxury is more peace than price tag Luxury tourism is becoming more and more subjective. For some, luxury travel is a curated art tour in Paris, Amsterdam or New York. For…

Solo Female Travellers Set Their Sights on Africa

There’s no doubt about it; solo female travel is on the rise. Global travel brand, Virtuoso, reports that women now make up 71% of solo travellers. In the US, Google searches for…

Home is where the heart is: This 1974 Volkswagen Jurgens campervan became the Alfino family’s new home, a big adjustment from their house in Cape Town. (Zorann Elizabeth)

A family finds home on the road

So-called ‘van life’ has seemingly taken over. For one family of five, every breakdown and bump in the road was worth it

Camping RetrEats (Photo Archive)

Camping RetrEats

Trailblazing in the outdoors

Capital Hotels (Photo Archive)

Capital Hotels

Trailblazing the Apartment

Phaka Dludla
 (Photo Archive)

Phaka Dludla

Founder: Zulu Nomad

How to travel responsibly (Photo Archive)

How to travel responsibly

Leave wherever you go looking better than when you arrived, and support local business

Maintain a sense of adventure in your life (Photo Archive)

Maintain a sense of adventure in your life

It’s got a lot to do with your mental attitude; you can discover new things in your own neighbourhood

Features editor Zamatungwa Khumalo at the eSwatini border post, on one of her many travel adventures in South Africa

Celebrating 25 years of tourism in democratic South Africa

Editor’s note

Taking the wheel entails taking responsibility

Getting from point A to point B safely

South African drivers like to make up their own rules

En garde! Paris Saint-Germain’s forward, Kylian Mbappé, has a certain style, and has the makings of a ruthless Messi or Ronaldo. (Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images)

The bitter pill of being just to a meanie

After an encounter on the plane Milisuthando Bongela concludes that: “When given the choice to be right or to be kind, always choose to be kind.”

Money is an impediment but so too is the lack of political will, accountability and quality teacher training and support

SA passport, British visa application

Zukiswa Wanner reveals the lengths we go through in an excerpt from, "Hardly Working: A travel memoir of sorts"

Among the new friends found on Ilhabela

Going home from home

A traveller returns home to warm familiarities seen through the eyes of universality

The R28.1 million was for the city to service the stands, whereafter eThekwini would sell the land to private companies that would build houses. (File photo)

Going back isn’t going home

I didn’t grow up with Christmas trees and wrapped presents on the 25th, so the pressure of always bearing expensive gifts isn’t quite there.

Money talks when planning the festive season trips back home

The cost of the great masigodukeni

The great end-of-year homecoming is not as simple as ‘I’m back, folks!’

Long-distance buses do a roaring trade as thousands of Zimbabweans who work in South Africa head home for the Easter break.

Kisimusi is’fikile. Mari yako chete

Money woes are a constant but for me, it’s the gaps in memory that cost more

All you can eat: A spread of fresh seafood at La Paradeta restaurant in Barcelona.

Eating through Spain and Portugal

A trip around Spain, taking in Barcelona, Madrid and Granada, and ending in Lisbon, Portugal, is packed with gastronomic delights and adventure

Milisuthando (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)

The strange places we misplace power

"The power we attribute to the people in whose name apartheid was made is perhaps too generous at times and too limited to the power to have things".

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke at a specially convened press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul.

Everyday commute of curiosity

When I have conversations with women, they ask about my religion and my reasons for wearing hijab.

Walk on the wild side: The river is a constant feature on the iMfolozi Primitive Trail.

The nature of the beast

Mining threatens the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, a unique wilderness where the fundamentals of life confront you. Go see this KZN Eden.