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Which bag, and how much it may weigh: baggage limits on multi-leg African routes, and why the smallest aircraft decides what you can bring.

City in Kenya.

Human settlement.

Border days, regional flights and the arithmetic that decides how much of a multi-country trip you actually spend traveling.

What to ask before joining a group, and what to settle before organizing one, including the money conversation nobody wants to have.

How to read an itinerary properly: counting nights rather than days, and telling a good one from a busy one.

The order to plan an Africa journey in, and which decisions have a lead time. What each stage needs, and where to check the things that change.

How to decide what to carry, by trip type rather than by destination, and the few things worth getting right before you leave.

Archaeological sites, rock shelters, Swahili coastal towns and a language spoken by 200 million people: a guide to the heritage landscapes of Tanzania, and how to travel among them responsibly.

The crater is one part of an 809,440-hectare World Heritage property that also holds Olduvai Gorge, the Laetoli footprints, Maasai pastoral communities and an unresolved argument about who conservation is for.

The Afar Depression in northeastern Ethiopia holds one of the deepest records of human origins anywhere, alongside a working salt trade, an acid hydrothermal field and a persistent lava lake. It is also a region the US, UK and Canadian governments currently advise against.

A Cairo tour operator introduces Egypt: its geography, the beliefs that raised the pyramids, and the country visitors meet today.

Mosi-oa-Tunya, walking safaris in the Luangwa, and a copper economy that built the cities: Zambia rewards travelers who slow down.