Africa with Friends Several years before having kids, I started traveling to Africa with friends. It was amazing! In South Africa we saw the Cape of Good Hope and climbed Cape Town’s Table Mountain. In Zimbabwe we spent several days at Victoria Falls before getting into a local bus, traveling… Read More
Why I Want to Visit Mauritius
Mauritius This is a very unusual post for me. It’s literally the only thing on my website that isn’t based on personal experience. But for years, I’ve visited with Mauritius reps at ITB in Berlin, and I’ve saved Mauritius posts on Instagram, and I’ve had the island at the top… Read More
Around the World (Again) with a 10-Year-Old!
Around the World Two years ago I went around the world with my 10-year-old daughter in two weeks. It was supposed to be a crazy one-time adventure – seven cities, six countries, four continents to max out summer vacation and visit a bunch of her favorite places. Fast forward to… Read More
Six Senses Zil Pasyon: Stunning Family-Friendly Luxury in the Seychelles
A Seychelles Vacation with Kids Traveling from Copenhagen to Singapore on an around-the-world trip with my 10-year-old, we could have added stops virtually anywhere in Europe, Africa or Asia. We chose a Seychelles vacation at Six Senses Zil Pasyon– for several reasons. First, my son loves remote islands. His annual… Read More
The Coolest Places to Travel with Kids in 2018
Family Travel (for 2018) As you probably know, I write about family travel for Travelocity every month. Heading into 2018, they asked me for my family travel recommendations this year. Happy to oblige! I short-listed roughly 25 destinations – places that we’ve traveled to recently and loved, places that are… Read More
Photography Expeditions and Workshops: A Ranking
I’ve just returned from a photography expedition in Oman and United Arab Emirates with National Geographic. On the flight home, I started thinking about the ten photography expeditions and workshops that I’ve now done around the world and what made each one successful (or not). To my mind a successful trip needs:… Read More
Best of 2016: Favorite Things Around the World
It’s an absolutely amazing world, and I was lucky enough to see a lot of it this year, mostly with the kids. I started the year in Thailand, then moved on to the Philippines, Taiwan, the US, Tanzania, Kenya, Switzerland, Germany, Jamaica, China, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Hungary, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the UK, France,… Read More
Ten Incredibly Cool Kid-Friendly Activities Around the World
On our 13-hour flight back from Sydney this weekend, I started working on my round-up post of our favorite things in the world from the past year. Some are easy, since there’s usually one view from a hotel room that stood out, one breakfast, one resort, and so on. But… Read More
Ethiopia: Ten Amazing Places Not to Miss
Ethiopia Travel If Ethiopia’s not on your travel list, it should be. It’s a huge country – the largest landlocked country in the world – with unique cultures, a diverse landscape, incredible man-made creations, one of the oldest human skeletons ever discovered, and really good coffee. And there aren’t many tourists,… Read More
How to Book an Affordable African Safari
How Much Does a Safari Cost? Safaris are expensive. In the October-December 2015 issue of Travel Africa, the standard price of a 10-day safari in Botswana is listed at £6000-8000 (US$8,500-11,000), or $850-1100 per person per day. Major international safari companies routinely quote $700-1000 per person per day for Tanzanian… Read More