Africa & Middle East

Last year Air Canada launched direct flights to Casablanca, offering jet-setting Canadians a short seven-hour journey…

Morocco’s exotic charms are steeped in history, delighting jet-setters keen to whisk their way from the Sahara’s…

Opened in 1923, the legendary La Mamounia Hotel stands on the site of a residence that, in the 18th century, belonged to the…

Last year Air Canada launched direct flights to Casablanca, offering jet-setting Canadians a short 7 hour journey from…

After disembarking their ocean liner at Alexandria, the 19th-century tourist would board a train to Cairo where they would…

Cairo has been the Islamic world’s greatest city since the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258. Egyptians have two names…

Jordan is about 85% desert, but this one simple word describes a multitude of scenes, from the dramatic red sands and towering…

Amman is a thoroughly twentieth-century invention: it was little more than an unregarded, muddy farming village when…

Sacred to three religions and once considered to be the centre of the world itself, the Holy City is, for all its fame, quite…

My first visit to Israel began as a colourful tour of the country’s youngest city and ended as an epic stroll…

When asked to conjure up images of a first visit to Israel dreamy visions tend to consist of Christian bible inspired road…

My Namibian adventure would come to a close on a high note! We were headed north from Damaraland to Namibia’s Etosha…