Mysterious Africa

After remaining hidden from the world for 3,000 years, the mummified face of the Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun has been revealed on Saturday. The skin is black and crackled with a leathery texture. The 'buck teeth', which is a family trait of Tut's...

Virgin forests, impenetrable jungles, vast expansive grasslands and the eventual merging into the Kalahari Desert. A lonesome cheetah tracks your movements perched on a tree and contemplates its next move. The cheerful birds chirp in the blazing...

Night brings on a dangerous yet active time for all wild animals for this is the time when the heat cools off. The night is full of dark mystery, terror, silence and predation. Crepuscular creatures began to stir with the dying of the light. You..

Single tourists and other backpacker-mass-tourists slipping into Ghana have resorted to preying on truant and delinquent kids idling on the beaches and streets by luring them with money, immigration abroad and other gizmos. This is the sordid...

Sipi Falls is one of Uganda's most romantic and beautiful falls. There are three levels of falls, but the two upper levels are fairly small compared with the main drop. The fall is about 55km north of Mbale, in the foothills of Mt Elgon and not...

Perhaps, the political upheavals and poor economy of Libya are not strong enough to bury the charm of historically renowned city of Timbuktu. The mysterious land remained unnoticed until date and its old literature stamped under the hot and humid...

The serene and wonderful ILHA DO IBO of Mozambique, Africa is indeed a great place to relax for a few days. The Times Online foreign correspondent Christina Lamb selected this particular island for solitude after being shot at by the Taliban during.

Timbuktu is not a city of the imagination it very much exists! Not much has changed in this ancient trading center, apart from the means to get to it. Before the late 20th century, the only way to reach the legendarily remote city was to take a...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian noblewoman's large stone coffin while they were digging a site near crumbling pyramid of Unas in Saqqara built during the reign of Ramses II. Named Sekhemet Nefret, the coffin is said to be built...

Thinking about your next vacation already? Are you considering an island or beach resort? If climbing ancient volcanoes, and snorkelling is fun, check out Principe sland. With a population of 6000 people roughly, this might just become your...