Travel Guides

Ancient sites were not built for wheelchairs and most have not been adapted, but more of Egypt is reachable than the reputation suggests.

The Egyptian pound, a habit of tipping that has its own name, and the reason no exchange rate is printed anywhere on this page.

A desert country with cold nights, dusty air, a modest dress code and more walking on uneven stone than most itineraries admit.

Which parts of Egypt the advisories rule out, which they explicitly do not, and why that second half matters more than the first.

Egypt, unlike much of the continent, will sell most visitors a visa at the airport. Whether you should let it is the more useful question.

Sleeper trains down the Nile, a metro that is the only sane way across Cairo, and a river that has been the main road for five thousand years.

South Africa has some of the best accessible infrastructure on the continent and very little consistency, so the research is per venue rather than general.

Minibus taxis move most of South Africa, ride hailing covers the cities, and the distances between them are longer than the map suggests.

The rand, a card economy that reaches further than most of the continent, and the reason no exchange rate appears anywhere on this page.

South Africa is a high country with a real winter and a southern hemisphere calendar, and most packing mistakes here start from forgetting one of those.

South Africa has a high crime rate and a very large number of visitors who have no trouble at all. Both are true, and the difference is mostly habits.

South Africa issues no visa at the border, wants two blank pages in your passport, and since July 2026 asks every traveler to declare online.