Travel Guides

A country of hills where the capital is manageable, the tracking is steep and wet and off any path, and Akagera is the real alternative.

Good roads between towns, motorbike taxis everywhere, and one Saturday morning each month when most of the country simply stops moving.

The Rwandan franc, a mobile money economy that most visitors never touch, and the one government advisory that has nothing to say here.

Altitude, two rainy seasons and one banned item that is confiscated at the airport shape what should go in a Rwandan bag.

Low crime, a closed border, a lit forest highway where a bus was attacked, and a health rule about caves that most Rwanda writing omits.

Rwanda admits Commonwealth citizens on a free visa on arrival, and one recent border measure matters more than the visa itself.

Namibia is unusually navigable for a desert country, right up to the last few kilometers of the places everyone wants to see.

Most visitors drive themselves across Namibia, and the single most expensive thing to misunderstand is what the hire insurance does not cover.

Namibia runs two currencies at once, and the useful half of the fact is the one direction in which the arrangement does not work.

Namibia is a desert with real winters and a coast that is cold and foggy, so the packing problem is range rather than heat.

Namibia is calm and empty almost everywhere, and its two real risks are Windhoek after dark and the road surface between towns.

Namibia started requiring a visa on 1 April 2025, so any advice written before that date is now wrong about the most important thing.