This week’s Amateur Traveler podcast was on traveling to Zanzibar in Tanzania. You can get by in English in Tanzania but you will have a better experience if you pick up even [...]

It is a rare thing for a U.S. Ambassador to write an open letter to travelers urging them to consider visiting a country, but that is what the US ambassador to Kenya, [...]

Tourists with plans to go to Kenya can and should reconsider them with stories like this one from Reuter’s Africa coming out of Kenya: Tourists arriving in Mombasa on Kenya’s Indian Ocean [...]