My favorite 12 Things To Do Maputo, Mozambique – Understand Maputo is located just at the southern tip of Mozambique, a huge country that stretches all along the Eastern shores of Africa from Tanzania to Swaziland bordering Malawi and South Africa. If you think you can triangulate Maputo from hopping over form Johannesburg – think […]
My Favorite 25 Things to do Cape Town, South Africa – Understand Cape Town needs no introduction – it’s famous for its incredible scenery, quirky weather and European ‘savoir vivre’ lifestyle. The former British ‘Cape Colony’ has been getting much cheaper since the harsh devaluation of the South African Rand. It’s now starting to become a […]
My favorite Things To Do in Johannesburg, South Africa – Understand Johannesburg is the capital of South Africa and it’s industrial and financial center. Johannesburg feels more gritty than you’d expect for a middle income capital. It certainly is not a beautiful city. However entrepreneurship and interior design runs strong with South Africans and there […]
JPMiles, the loyalty program of embattled JetAirways is currently running an interesting promotion that may enable you to earn 110 JPMiles for many hotel bookings. 1) Meet the JPMiles hotel booking portal – hotels.jetprivilege.com The JPMiles booking portal is known as hotels.jetprivilege.com and works essentially like a meta-search engine for hotels. Unlike Pointshound or Rocketmiles […]
– Marriott and Starwood are out with the new award chart for their combined program (yet to be unnamed) effective August 2018 The long story short – the team has typically rounded up or down most properties. There aren’t any shocking good or bad values suddenly. The best redemption seem to be the formerly unaffordable […]
The Basics Readers keep asking me about my clothing and luggage choices, especially when going to more extreme climates. Over time, I realized a number of things about my luggage: Lots of luggage slowed me down (duh!) Many items in my luggage that I kept coming home with were unused, incl. many electronics, chargers, etc. Less […]
– ANA Mileage Club and points.com have a new hotel booking portal which earns 10-12 miles per dollar spend If you do not pay for your hotel stays you should try it out as I’d rather get the miles than pay Expedia’s exorbitant 25% margins. – speaking of Expedia – there is a new 20% […]
I have been traveling for 20 years and lived in Europe, Asia and the US for extended periods. I’d call myself an experienced traveler but that still is not enough to avoid many travel ripoffs. Here is my personal TOP 13 (or bottom 13). Travel Ripoff I – The eternal taxi scam This must be […]
Things to do in Montreal – Understand Montreal is the commercial center of Quebec – a quite special area in North America. Québécois people hold on to the French language and the French view of life much more than you would expect. This is a rare sight for the North American continent that is usually […]
Torsten has asked me to post this on behalf of him. You can book your stay at the Voyager Resort in Nyali here. For my stay in Mombasa, I eventually settled into the Voyager Resort in Nyali. The resort was just a block away from the apartment I had originally rented, which hadn’t been as great […]