Africa

The lucky winner will get two nights' B&B in a Premium Room at the five-star Kenzi Menara Palace Hotel.

WIN! A weekend for two in Marrakech

We've teamed up with Hotels.com – the world's leading hotel booking website – to offer a weekend break for two in Marrakech, Morocco.

Inside Africa

Best for getting lost: Fez

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Every great city is entirely itself and nowhere else. At the same time, they're all like ... somewhere. Somewhere that doesn't exist. A Platonic copy, perhaps; an embodiment of the idea of the city, whatever that may be. Morocco has several versions – all different – but in the end Tangier, Rabat and Marrakesh seem to me just rehearsals for the world's great masterpiece, Fez. In particular, the Bali Medina, the walled Old City, of Fez. The traditional Great City – traditional now, in our post-Enlightenment eyes – is a place of visual harmony, of vistas and prospects, squares, spires and domes. Old Fez is the exact opposite. The alleyways of the medina are so sinuous, straitened and overbuilt that there is, quite literally, no view. You never know what is around the next corner as it tilts down towards the river. You barely know where the next corner is. There is no angle that can lead the eye upwards more than 30ft. The rooflines are a mystery. The medina from the air reveals nothing about the medina on the ground. The eye is made useless.

Best for the wild at heart: South Africa

Saturday, 6 February 2010

I was expecting to see the wildlife, not eat it. Yet here it was in front of me – springbok shank, with mash, washed down with a fine Cape red. I'm not quite sure how this reconciles with the avowed "eco tourist" mission of Richard Branson's Ulusaba Private Game Reserve in South Africa, but I suppose my meat was free-range and organic. If you haven't tried it, the national animal is like lamb, only gamier – and surprisingly fatty.

Zanzibar: Trouble on Paradise Island

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Robbery and power cuts – two of the problems awaiting visitors to the isle of Zanzibar

Mission Of The Month: Going to South Africa for the footie? Be on the ball

Saturday, 23 January 2010

A series of dispatches by diplomats from British Embassies and High Commissions around the world

Boating (and baboon spotting) for beginners

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Paul Gogarty tries Kenya's new Big Five – sail, surf, cycle, scuba and safari – at Mnarani beach, Neilson's first long-haul destination

In full bloom: South Africa's wild Western Cape

Saturday, 9 January 2010

With more than 8,000 plant species on display, South Africa's Western Cape is a nature-lover's paradise.

Travel challenge: 10 nights in South Africa

Saturday, 2 January 2010

Every week we invite competing companies to give us their best deal for a specified holiday. Today: a 10-night holiday in South Africa in early February. Prices are for two people travelling together and include flights from Heathrow to Cape Town departing 6 February.