Kevin Davie goes in search of a mountain bike route through the northern Drakensberg.
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/ 19 January 2009
On a recent cycling trip Kevin Davie met up with
tiny, unexpected tourists from Siberia.
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/ 17 December 2008
Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is mounting the United States’s biggest biennial of modern art. Teri Grenert reports.
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/ 29 November 2008
As the preferred winter retreat of the Rat Pack, the Fontainebleau Hotel put Miami on the map as the capital of cool.
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/ 28 November 2008
Far from the package resorts of the Red Sea and Luxor, a spectacular eco lodge at Siwa provides a haven of style and romance in the Sahara.
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/ 20 November 2008
It’s just 140km from New York, but Philadephia is finally stepping out of the Big Apple’s shadow — and its baseball team is better too.
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/ 20 November 2008
New York’s multicultural street food is unrivalled
— and the most successful vendors take their
wares and set up shop.
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/ 13 November 2008
The trick to enjoying a tour of Rome is to avoid the organised tour buses with Americans, particularly the ones who come from small towns.
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/ 12 November 2008
The Radisson Hotel, on Granger Bay, is right on the seaboard with sweeping views facing Robben Island.
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/ 10 November 2008
A visit to the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha
provides Niren Tolsi with temporary shelter from the hurly-burly of the Eastern Cape.
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/ 7 November 2008
The €100-million restoration of the massive 19th-century parlour is Paris’s art event of the year.
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/ 23 October 2008
Arriving in Fes, the only medieval Arab city that is still intact, is like being catapulted back in time. Tahir Shah is spellbound.
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/ 16 October 2008
The Van der Merwe family share their Namibian home with 400 animals and, occasionally, Angelina Jolie. Britt Collins reports.
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/ 14 September 2008
Nicole Johnston goes on a survival course with author Lee Gutteridge and learns about the birds and the bees and the plants and the trees.
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/ 2 September 2008
Two old boats have been recalled to duty to handle the huge daily tourist demand to visit Robben Island.
Jacqueline Steeneveldt recently spent a weekend at the Irene Country Lodge.
It’s not surprising tourism is Thailand’s number-one employment generator. It’s amazing to walk down the street at any time of the day without fear.