Travel Guides

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.

A first journey is a first journey to one or two places, not to a continent. What to decide first, and what surprises people who have not been.

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.

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.

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

What to check, where to check it, and how early, for the documents that stop a trip before it starts.