Destination: Africa
Face-Off on the Congo
by Jeffrey Tayler | 06.01.09 | 10:23 AM ET
REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly Jeffrey Tayler was cooking lunch along the Congo River when armed men approached, making demands. Enter the Big Man.
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Yahoo! BuzzKhenchela, Algeria
by World Hum | 05.28.09 | 10:03 AM ET
REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra A woman weaves carpet at her house in Babar village, in the eastern city of Khenchela. Babar carpets are the most expensive carpets in Algeria, and take up to three months to make.
Alexandria, Egypt
by World Hum | 05.21.09 | 12:10 PM ET
REUTERS/Tarek Mostafa Visitors check out the rare books displayed in the Alexandria Library, home to more than 3000 rare manuscripts, books and maps
Video: Alison Stein Wellner: The Heat Seeker
by World Hum | 05.11.09 | 11:16 AM ET
Alison Stein Wellner traveled around the world to eat the hottest food she could handle, a quest she chronicled for World Hum
The Heat Seeker: Eat, Sweat, Love
by Alison Stein Wellner | 05.11.09 | 11:12 AM ET
iStockphoto Alison Stein Wellner likes her food hot and spicy. To find out how hot and spicy, she searched the world for heat. Part one of five: Currywurst in Frankfurt.
Eight Great Funny Travel Stories
by World Hum | 05.01.09 | 2:23 PM ET
To mark World Hum's eighth anniversary, we've collected eight favorite travel stories from our archives that see the humor in travel
Eight Great Family Travel Stories
by World Hum | 05.01.09 | 11:33 AM ET
iStockPhoto To mark World Hum's eighth anniversary, we've collected eight favorite travel stories from our archives that explore the family vacation in all its forms
Eight Photos to Inspire Wanderlust
by World Hum | 05.01.09 | 8:12 AM ET
REUTERS Indulge your armchair traveler. We've gathered eight wanderlust-inspiring travel photos from around the world.
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Eight Great Road Trip Stories
by World Hum | 04.29.09 | 10:21 AM ET
To mark World Hum's eighth anniversary, we've collected from our archives eight favorite travel stories that heed the call of the open road
Cairo, Egypt
by World Hum | 04.28.09 | 1:57 PM ET
REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih An Egyptian worker leads his horse past clay and plaster figures, in an area popular for pottery and plaster works, in Cairo.
Eight Great Stories of the Shrinking Planet
by World Hum | 04.28.09 | 10:08 AM ET
To mark our eighth anniversary, we've collected stories from our archives that speak to ways people and cultures are mixing and colliding
Aswan, Egypt
by World Hum | 04.27.09 | 10:55 AM ET
REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih A guide and a tourist look at hieroglyphics on the wall in Fiela Temple in Aswan
Around the World in Five Dates
by Terry Ward | 04.07.09 | 12:04 PM ET
iStockphoto The language of love may be universal, but the etiquette of dating is not. Terry Ward looks at courting from Tehran to Tokyo.
Kenyan Eco-Tourism Camp Draws on the ‘Obama Magic’
by Joanna Kakissis | 03.30.09 | 11:20 AM ET
In 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama stayed in a room at Basecamp Explorer, which is set on 40 acres at the edge of the Masai Mara National Game Reserve. Now that he’s President Obama, the room where he stayed is already popular with visitors, camp general manager Annette Bulman told Business Daily Africa.
The so-called “Obama room” is spare, with a bed, two African stools and a table with a framed photo of Obama and some Basecamp employees. Its wooden porch has a hammock and overlooks the Talek River. Basecamp Explorer is already one of the top eco-tourism facilities in Kenya. Could the “Obama room” also make it one of the most popular in Africa?
A Little Bit of Botswana Comes to HBO
by Eva Holland | 03.27.09 | 10:29 AM ET
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, a television adaptation of the popular Alexander McCall Smith novels, premieres on HBO this weekend. The series follows the adventures of Botswana’s only female detective, Precious Ramotswe, played by Jill Scott; Anthony Minghella cowrote and directed the two-hour pilot before his death, and he and Sydney Pollack (also since deceased) were both producers on the project.