Africa & Middle East

Family Safari Tours of Africa designed with kids' needs in mind, as well as Africa vacations with kids to Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, Seychelles and more Africa countries.

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Buying Cheap Tickets To Accra:The Mesmerizing Capital Of Ghana

Accra is one of the preferred destinations of Europeans with plenty of cultural attractions, beaches and restaurants. Get cheap flights to Accra and be prepared to have an astonishing holiday with your family. With a fabulous climate throughout the year, the beaches of Accra are one of the...

African Safaris Welcome Families

African Safaris Welcome Families

Safari companies in South Africa and Kenya open their doors to families seeking adventure with children of all ages. Safari, or “travel” in Swahili, is no longer limited to adventure-seeking adults and perhaps older teens. Family Travel Forum’s consulting division has tracked...

wildebeest crossing Mara River, copyright A. Kempler

Dream Trips: Catching the Migration in Kenya and Tanzania

Two-by-two, the wildebeest come in a seemingly endless line of gray that cuts through the Masai Mara’s golden plains. The wildebeest and their migrating companions, the zebra, move toward the Mara River. Hundreds upon hundreds of animals mass on the savannah just above the river bank, braying...

Seychelles Beach

Beautiful Seychelles In-Vogue In Africa

Located off the African continent’s east coast in the Indian Ocean, Seychelles is the new destination hot spot for all types of vacations, ecotourism, culture adventures, water sports and just plain fun-in-the-sun.  It is no wonder Prince William and his new wife Kate decided to spend a...

I Feel Complete

         Growing up, I had always felt an emptiness deep down in my heart, a constant feeling that something was missing and I never knew what it was. I had always dreamed of the place I call home, a place not only where I am a citizen, but also a...

My Journey to Israel

“Shalom (hello in Hebrew), welcome home.” These were the first words I heard from the stuartist when I stepped off of the plane. I, along with fourteen other classmates, had just arrived in Israel, where we were a part of a three month foreign exchange program. These welcoming words...

Carolina for Kibera

Diary of a Slum Dog

I walk through the dirt covered path, my head down, as the scent of burning trash fills my nose. I hear the faint screams of a child nearby, and look up to see a group of boys playing a makeshift game of soccer, using a ball made of old newspaper and rope. As I continue walking, I’m struck by...

City of Jerusalem

No'ar Hadash Summer 2010; Discovering My Second Home, Israel.

It is July 13th, 2010, local Israeli time, 7:15am, I am on an ElAl flight from Newark, New Jersey to Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel. I am with a Reconstructionist youth group called No’ar Hadash, traveling with 23 other sixteen year olds to our homeland, Israel. The pilot comes on the...

My Hut Is Your Hut

Pitch dark, ten degrees hotter than outside, a stench of manure. I can barely make out the outline of a woman, or rather a girl of twenty, who sits in silence as she feeds her baby. My arms are constricted and my back is hunched. The domed composition of the structure allows for abundant ground...

This is a picture of some of my cousins

A Beautiful Mess.

Nigeria. That word meant little to me prior to 2009.  I left Nigeria as a bubbling five old, and barely remembers anything about the country. Yes, I was born there, but that is all I can tell anyone. In the process of trying to be like any other American kid, I had jettisoned any remnant of...