by Sarah Duff | May 7, 2014 | Africa, desert, Festival, Festivals
The dust is settling in the Tankwa Karoo as another AfrikaBurn has drawn to close. For a week, 9000 people turned a farm in the middle of nowhere in the Northern Cape into a temporary town – a surreal world of art, music, dress up and performances. When...
by Sarah Duff | Apr 25, 2014 | Central America, Conservation
It was midnight on a hot, sticky Costa Rican beach and I was so exhausted from jet lag that I had started hallucinating dark shapes in the ocean. We’d been walking on the starlit beach for a few hours following our enthusiastic guide, Kloyd Taylor, whose...
by Sarah Duff | Apr 22, 2014 | Central America
It was like being inside a “Sounds of the Rainforest” CD. Standing on a suspension bridge high above a Costa Rican cloud forest, with the sound of a thousand tweeting birds, gentle humming of insects and a breeze rustling couch-sized tree leaves, I was transfixed....
by Sarah Duff | Mar 26, 2014 | Africa, Kenya, Wildlife
Kenya’s been on my African travel wish list for a long time. I’ve dreamed of visiting the country that’s home to vast plains teeming with game home to the greatest wildlife migration on earth, the continent’s most famous tribe, the Maasai and tropical...
by Sarah Duff | Mar 24, 2014 | Central America, Conservation, Wildlife
I’m pretty excited about my next assignment: a 10-day trip to Costa Rica with Contiki Cares! I’m joining 11 other people from around the world – the three winners of the recent #contikistorytellers competition, as well as photographers, filmmakers,...
