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April 22, 2015
Dubai, Reviews

The tradition of coffee at the Dubai Coffee Museum

Drinking coffee is integral to Arabic traditions of hospitality, and there is no better place to discover this than at the Coffee Museum in Dubai’s Al Fahidi Historical District....

April 20, 2015
Dubai, Reviews

Dubai – SMCCU is a must do cultural experience

A great way to start a visit to Dubai is at the Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding (SMCCU) located in the historic Al Fahidi District in Bur Dubai. ...

April 20, 2015
Dubai, Travel

Shopping in Dubai

Dubai offers a number of shopping options, from glitzy shopping malls to the traditional souks, both offering merchandise from around the world to be carefully considered (or haggled over)...

April 20, 2015
Dubai, Reviews

Lunch at the quirky XVA Café in Dubai

The XVA Café is hidden within the narrow streets of the historic Al Fahidi district. It is the wonderfully quirky with an abundance of art on display – hence...

February 21, 2015
Dubai, Travel

Dubai – ancient and modern

I use the term ancient rather loosely, as Dubai was only founded around the 1800s – it was once however a region inhabited by Bedouins who made a living...

September 27, 2014
Safari

Luxury Travel…

To many, luxury travel and responsible travel are on opposite ends of the travel spectrum… Responsible Traveller posed some questions to four of the top luxury safari operators in...

June 5, 2014
KwaZulu-Natal, Safari

Memorable Encounters at Amakhosi Safari Lodge

The evidence was there. Huge impressions left in the dusty road, paths through the lush grass, green and succulent after the recent unseasonal rains. They were moving in an...

May 23, 2014
KwaZulu-Natal, Conservation

Fordoun’s green pastures and ‘green’ initiatives

Not only is Fordoun Hotel & Spa situated in the green pastures of a successful Nottingham Road dairy farm, it is also firmly committed to the environment through a...

January 26, 2014
Travel, Mozambique

Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city

My first glimpse of Maputo was from the air, the red earth punctuated with occasional glistening rooftops, the new metal surprisingly untarnished. Reflecting what Maputo and indeed much of...

October 29, 2013
Awards, News

2013 Wild Asia Responsible Tourism Awards Winners

The seventh Wild Asia Responsible Tourism Awards revealed its six prestigious winners at Asia’s biggest business-to-business travel trade show, ITB Asia, on Friday 25th October in Singapore. From all...

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