by Lawson Brooks | Mar 14, 2025
Traveling can be one of the most rewarding experiences, but it takes its toll on you physically and mentally. Long flights, changing time zones, and unfamiliar environments can drain the body and the mind. Jet lag disrupts your sleep routine, leaving you feeling...
by Lawson Brooks | Mar 14, 2025
Tiny, rare succulents, carefully labelled and packed into plastic pots, fill an undisclosed greenhouse in South Africa. These plants—some resembling green thumb tips, others like rounded stones—have been confiscated from poachers and smugglers who illegally harvested...
by Lawson Brooks | Mar 14, 2025
The Cape Town Cruise Terminal is experiencing an impressively busy 2024/25 season. More than 20 cruise liners will be making a stop-over in Cape Town this month alone, boosting tourism and local businesses. Picture: Sourced Moreover, a total of 76 ship calls are...
by Lawson Brooks | Mar 14, 2025
Most of us have never genuinely gazed upon the night sky in all her glory. The blur of city lights and smog obscures the radiant beauty. There are some hidden places, though, where the stars burst across the sky. South Luangwa National Park in northern Zambia is most...
by Lawson Brooks | Mar 14, 2025
It is a hot unforgiving summer in Mumbai. I am in Andheri, a bustling hub in the west of the gigantic cosmopolis. However, here in the basalt, rock-cut cocoon of the Mahakali caves, time seems to have been trapped in a bubble. The skies are silent, blue and only...
