The Mail’s impromptu meeting with the world’s shortest tribe, who live on the edge of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and count mountain gorillas as their neighbours

by David Hibbins | Dec 31, 2023 | Latest Travel News

We drive.Robert steers the jeep down a bright orange, dusty track.To our left is a steep incline with tree roots tangled in the soil. To our right, a sheer drop.’Don’t look down,’ he says with a laugh.When we finally emerge from the winding mountain...

‘It was heaven nearly everywhere’: Veteran traveller shares his incredible photo album from a 1970s road trip in a Citroen 2CV through Syria, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan before the Taliban

by David Hibbins | Dec 31, 2023 | Latest Travel News

Syria, Iran and Afghanistan are considered high-risk for Westerners to visit today – but when one European travelled around them in the 1970s, he discovered ‘heaven nearly everywhere’.Dutch native Frank van den Berge, 73, took incredible photographs of his...

Time Out ranks the 24 best things to do in the UK in 2024, from visiting Manchester’s new arena to seeing London’s National Gallery on tour (and drinking ‘actually nice’ English wine)

by David Hibbins | Dec 31, 2023 | Latest Travel News

Here’s one (or 24) for the diary – Time Out has ranked the best new things to do in the UK in 2024. The 24-strong ranking was crafted by the guide’s UK-based editors and is ‘filled with a simply huge amount of exciting...

I’m a self-confessed nomad who lives alone on a remote island in Canada with roaming bears

by David Hibbins | Dec 31, 2023 | Latest Travel News

A self-confessed nomad has revealed how she has been living alone on a remote island in British Columbia for the past two years, after landing a job as its caretaker. Amanda, who uses the handle @amandaoffgrid on social media and does not reveal her last...

Inside the 13th-century property in the Lake District named as England’s ‘best small hotel’ for 2023. The Mail checked in to see if it lived up to the hype…

by David Hibbins | Dec 30, 2023 | Latest Travel News

They say fairytales are make-believe.Grade I-listed Askham Hall hotel in the Lake District will leave you doubting this – it’s like a fantasy-fable house made real, with grand yet homely interiors, a kitchen garden straight from Middle-earth’s Shire and...

Inside the French Chateau that ‘feels like something from a Disney movie’ – and costs under £40 per person a night

by David Hibbins | Dec 30, 2023 | Latest Travel News

‘It felt like staying in something from a Disney movie.’So said travel influencer Emma Cooke of her stay at Château de Contay, an 18th-century country house in the small village of Contay, France.Emma documented her visit with a short TikTok video, which...