by David Hibbins | Nov 21, 2024 | Latest Travel News
At just after 11pm on September 8 last year, the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco were struck by an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale – the strongest to hit the North African kingdom in 120 years.Nearly 3,000 people died, 19,000 homes were destroyed and...
by David Hibbins | Nov 21, 2024 | Latest Travel News
It’s not often an elephant knocks on your door while you’re getting ready for dinner.He’s just a trunk length away and I’m frozen.As I peer into his pink snout, now tracing a section of netting on my wood-framed safari lodge, I wonder if...
by David Hibbins | Nov 21, 2024 | Latest Travel News
National Geographic has a reputation for breathtaking imagery – and its latest Pictures of the Year edition shows why.The compelling December 2024 issue includes the ‘most stunning’ images taken by Nat Geo photographers this year – ‘photos that capture the wonder of...
by David Hibbins | Nov 20, 2024 | Latest Travel News
Move over Munich, Cologne and Salzburg, the best-value Christmas market breaks are to be found in the Baltic states and as you move deeper into Central and Eastern Europe.Christmas markets may have originated in Germany and Austria in the late middle ages, but these...
by David Hibbins | Nov 20, 2024 | Latest Travel News
A 280 million-year-old lost world was accidentally discovered by a woman while hiking in the Italian Alps.Claudia Steffensen and her husband were trekking along a trail in the Valtellina Orobie Mountains Park in Lombardy in 2023 when she spotted a light gray rock...
