Tourist Attractions

Kevin Davie goes in search of a mountain bike route through the northern Drakensberg.

On a recent cycling trip Kevin Davie met up with tiny, unexpected tourists from Siberia.

Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is mounting­ the United States’s biggest biennial of modern art. Teri Grenert reports.

As the preferred winter retreat of the Rat Pack, the Fontainebleau Hotel put Miami on the map as the capital of cool.

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.

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.

New York’s multicultural street food is unrivalled — and the most successful vendors take their wares and set up shop.

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.

The Radisson Hotel, on Granger Bay, is right on the seaboard with sweeping views facing Robben Island.

A visit to the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha provides Niren Tolsi with temporary shelter from the hurly-burly of the Eastern Cape.

The €100-million restoration of the massive 19th-century parlour is Paris’s art event of the year.

Arriving in Fes, the only medieval Arab city that is still intact, is like being catapulted back in time. Tahir Shah is spellbound.

The Van der Merwe family share their Namibian home with 400 animals and, occasionally, Angelina Jolie. Britt Collins reports.

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.

Two old boats have been recalled to duty to handle the huge daily tourist demand to visit Robben Island.