Africa travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

The Tareq Rajab Museum or Museum of Islamic Calligraphy is located at the main city area of Kuwait in one of the most beautiful buildings in the country. The Museum is the private collection of the Rajab family – Kuwait’s first minister of antiquities and his British wife. The collection was started in the early 1950s and after long tours of traveling and collecting articles, in 1980 they finally were able to open a museum for the public. The museum has the collection of above thirty thousand items, of which about ten thousand are permanently on for public display.

Continue reading Don’t miss this superb private collection of Islamic art

Internationally recognized as one of the foremost art institutions in the Middle East, the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman is a place to go. Located in a complex of two different buildings which are connected via a pleasant sculpture park, this impressive gallery is a wonderful place to gain an appreciation of contemporary Jordanian painting, sculpture and pottery.

Continue reading If you are interested in Islamic art

Far closer to Africa than to Spain, the sub-tropical Canary Islands are known for their budget sun and sand – although, as they are volcanic, the latter is often a rather uninviting shade of charcoal. Solutions have been found by importing golden sand from the Sahara 200 km away, and by building saltwater lidos. Nonetheless, the balmy year-round climate, cooled to a steadt 25-30º C by marine currents, has ensured that these seven islands have not only fabulously lush vegetation, including a sufeit of bananas, but also a constant flow visitors.

Continue reading Island Spain – Canaries

Hemingway’s is an intimate, privately owned hotel built right at the edge of the beach of Watamu Marine Park, considered one of the world s most beautiful. Situated in one of one of East Africa’s finest big-game fishing destinations, Hemingway’s Resort overlooks the stunning beach and is a member of Small Luxury Hotels. Surrounded by lush and palm-filled gardens and offers a wide array of water sports and activities, this is the perfect way to encounter Kenya. The ocean can be seen from most rooms.

Continue reading African horizonts

This voluptuous object is conveniently settled on famous Ocean Move. Settled on the beach, this Miami Beach belongings is familiar to Lummus Stadium Beach and Flamingo Gear. The Cardozo Hotel is an elegantly renovated 1939 deco occasion with a tranquil ambiance. When Southland Beach made a passage from a retirement district to a naughty jet set instruction, one of the ordinal hotels to unlawful its doors to the vogue crew was Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s Cardozo Hotel.

Continue reading Very Neat and Trendy

La Laguna in short, is a city in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. In Spanish ‘The Lagoon”, the city is third-most populous city of the archipelago and second-most populous city of the island. It was founded more than five centuries ago some time between 1496 and 1497 by Alonso Fernandez de Lugo. It was the main cultural centre and several teaching institutions were established like Canary Islands University.

Continue reading San Cristobal de La Laguna

Kilwa is an Islamic community on an island off the coast of East Africa, in present day Tanzania. It was the principal of about thirty-five ports of trade on the Indian Ocean, trading gold, ivory, iron and coconuts from southern Africa during the 11th through 16th centuries AD. The Great Mosque of Kilwa is the earliest remaining mosque structure on the East African coast. It was likely founded in the tenth century, but the two major stages of construction date to the eleventh or twelfth and thirteenth century, respectively. The mosque was built in two stages – the small, northern prayer hall, in the 11th century, and the southern enlargement in the 14th century.

Continue reading Tanzania religious tourism

Phinda Forest Lodge is placed in the Phinda Secret Line Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Set intense in the nerve of a extraordinary and lovely dry smoothen ground, the impressive Vegetation Lodge at and Beyond Phinda fuses architectural decoration and improvement. Situated in the Phinda Gamy Request, Phinda Set Fix enjoys an surround princely in wildlife and big spunky, as good as pleasing and unequalled views. With only a handful of lodges superior wildlife sightings, guests are assured an exclusive occupation watch experience.

Continue reading In “Zulu Zen” Style

The Zambezi Queen gives you a unique sophisticated and elegant experience that has not lost the essence of all that is simply African. There can be few natural wonders as synonymous with Africa’s raw wilderness as the great Chobe River. These waters divide Namibia’s Caprivi Strip from Botswana’s Chobe National Park, and its exotic banks boast one of the densest populations of wildlife on the African continent.

Continue reading Zambezi Queen

Babylonstoren is a Cape Dutch farm with vineyards and orchards surrounded by the dramatic mountains of the Drakenstein Valley. It has an exceptionally well–preserved werf dating from 1690. A fruit and vegetable garden of botanical diversity supplies a remarkable restaurant. Guests staying at an exclusive farm hotel enjoy access to the entire farm, plus facilities like a spa and gym. The aim is to have guests feel more comfortable, more alive among warm smiles and the simple daily rhythm of the farm.

Continue reading Babylonstoren, South Africa