I’ve just spent three weeks in South Africa, Zambia and Malawi. For most of this trip, I stayed at several Protea Hotels by Marriott and I recently reviewed the following seven properties: The Protea Hotel O.R. Tambo Airport, which is located next to Johannesburg‘s international airport. Protea Hotel Cape Town Mowbray, in the southern suburbs of […]
My Favorite 14 Things to do Malawi – Understand Malawi can be best described as a gigantic organic farm where time has stood still for the last 200 years. Malawians are superbly talented farmers who have had no trouble foregoing a material life for a life living inside the huge farms that this country runs. The […]
Things to do in Accra, Ghana – Understand Accra is the capital of Ghana and located right at the water’s edge. While home to 3 million people, it feels spacious and never crowded. Ghanaians are extremely friendly and the city has a relaxed vibe that will surprise you (especially in contrast with, say, Nigeria). Accra […]
Arik Air (the wings of Nigeria) has been in business for 10 years. With its modern fleet and snazzy marketing, it is a Nigerian success story that has ridden the wave of the ever appreciating Naira. While many African airlines are banned from flying to Europe and the US, Arik Air operates to London and […]
Things to do Lagos – Understand Lagos is a huge city that sprawls into the Tropical Atlantic from the Nigerian mainland. Just twenty years ago, the Lagos Governor (as it is also a state) said that his protectorate was a slum with no rules and no income. Things have changed rapidly since then and the […]
There is more than one Nigeria Nigeria is not a coherent country. City dwellers in Lagos, those who live in the countryside and the people lucky enough to get direct access to the oil money (Nigeria produces 2 million barrels of oil every day) all live in different worlds that rarely intersect. Nigeria is very […]
A hotel that calls itself Anchorage in the middle of a hot tropical city is either delusional or printing money. It seems the latter is true. The Radisson Blu Anchorage Lagos is located along the main thoroughfare of Victoria Island, along the lagoon. It’s just half a mile west of the equally well-situated Oriental Hotel. […]
You can book the InterContinental Lagos here The InterContinental Lagos is located about 35 miles from Lagos Airport, right in one of the best neighborhoods of Lagos on Victoria Island (or VI as the locals refer to it). The immediate area is rather decrepit though and the building is surrounded by random buildings and bunch […]
Nigeria (like Angola) is a big African country that has been super-charged by oil money. Nigeria produces 2.5 million barrels a day; not so long ago that was a revenue of $250 million a day, and it’s still $125 million at current prices. Even now, that’s 45 billion a year at current prices and […]
So I have been planning my remaining 2014 travels and I'm trying to find destinations I should NOT check out. There are a number of helpful links out there and the recommendations are usually based on homicide rates. This can be misleading since as a tourist you may not be exposed to the same crime […]
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