Safari and volunteering work make a happy mix for Jo Pitches in the African bush – until she meets the resident monkeys.

Internet chat keeps Sezgi Yalin in touch with her friends in Tibet – some of the time. But silence is ominous in China’s buttoned-down colony.

There’s a long tradition of taunting Great Whites off the coast of South Africa: trailing fishfood then diving in cages. In Australia Roderick Eime finds the experience subtly different.

For a four-week holiday or longer travel opportunity, house-sitting can be a real option. Marcus Wilder reports on a freeganomic website linking home-owners and wannabe home-sitters.

It’s not enough for Emily Nixon to reach the remote Cook Islands. She decides to get further off the beaten trail by exploring underground.

You can hardly move for features extolling the many cuisines of the Far East, but one is largely overlooked. Rob Mcgovern sets the record straight with a paen of praise for Korean cuisine.

While other parts of Mexico might have their charms, Lee Patton finds Michoacan, usually overlooked and not in many guide books, fiesta central and a great place to be.