Keeping the children and grown-ups equally entertained on holiday is almost impossible, but not at this family resort.
Fed up with people not knowing how incredible the City of Gold is, a keen resident decided to show them.
Just because the Chinese and Conde Nast Traveler ignore Chongqing doesn’t mean the traveller should. Richard Poplak gets numb and spicy.
Guided by a Touareg tribe, Rachel Dixon joins a nomadic retreat on Morocco’s coast, hiking from beach to beach, practising yoga and sleeping in camps.
The beautiful town of Ladismith in the Klein Karoo may be off the beaten track, but tourists who skirt it are missing out.
Kafue is a great place to discover how our senses suddenly
come alive in the bush.
After the surprise release of the singer’s first single in more than a decade, Kate Connolly tours the city that inspired his trilogy of albums.
A hotel celebrates the famous author, but there’s little else to mark the city as Tolkien’s birthplace.
The city is committed to the social aspects of the sport and is hooking up a new generation.
Brent Meersman discovers the perfect way to remove the aches and pains of walking a 60km route.
As the film version of Tolkien’s book hits the screens, New Zealand is welcoming a fresh wave of visitors keen to follow in Bilbo’s hairy footsteps.
Holidaying in the People’s Republic has changed beyond recognition now that the new Chinese middle classes have learned to love it.
Bridget Hilton-Barber goes on a Venda Bender to get supine
— and serene.
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Trying to find her way through Spain on a budget, Cat Pritchard tried Airbnb — a website catering to, um, alternative accommodation.
On World Toilet Day, we take a look at the state of public facilities, from the humblest latrines to the most opulent thrones.
Mara Kardas-Nelson ate and drank and walked her way through a gloriously hot, sticky and beautifully unhurried mess.
Cat Pritchard found the way to buy yourself out of transit hell and straight into first-class luxury.
The city that remains abuzz from morning until night,leaves you wanting more as it has too much to soak up in a short amount of time.
Ever wonder who comes up with those extraordinary covers for the New Yorker magazine? Meet one of the creators: comic-book artist Jacques de Loustal.
Life has not been kind to the ‘oldest window girls in Amsterdam’, but the 70-year-old twins are enjoying their celebrity status.
With its first big-five wildlife park, and new lodges springing up, Malawi is taking on the big boys in the safari stakes.
Cape Town has launched tourism into the twittersphere. Tourism chief executive Mariette du Toit-Helmbold talks social networking and #LoveCapeTown.
Although not a hub for expats in the way Toronto, Perth, Auckland, and London are, the Big Apple has acquired several South African restaurants.
Nothing can compare with the physical experience of a harsh landscape utterly transformed by flowers.
Berlin is a creative hub and even in the most Sandtonesque area, Friedrichstrasse, home of the Reichstag, there is not a suit in sight.
Prince Harry has put the city’s riotous pool parties on the map — and, unusually, the best take place in daylight hours.
In St Petersburg, an underground arts movement is challenging the zeitgeist of greed, using kindness to turn old buildings into Utopias of creativity.
A relatively inexpensive safari in a small game conservancy in Kenya provides plenty of thrills and also benefits the local people.
Tanya Pampalone boarded the Crystal Serenity bubble for the Black Sea to find out how the other 5% live.
While most of us think of the Lost City as a rather kitsch establishment, it does offer quality entertainment for all ages.
The Free State town lives up to its botanical name, but locals hardly slow down enough to smell them.
African tourists are flocking to South Africa, according to figures released at last week’s tourism indaba in Durban.