Jetlagged and confused, John Gimlette finds himself slipping in and out of reality on a - very slightly dangerous - drive across Madagascar's highlands, now a deforested, landslipping plain.
It's a long time since Sun City was the only option for South Africans who want a gambling holiday. These days South Africa has some pretty compelling casinos: Paul Woollacombe looks through the options.
On a visit to Kenya, Lee Ruddin finds that the children of Kibera, one of Nairobi's most infamous slums, have a new reason to respect visitors from a now toxic West.
Lesley Pritt takes a tribal safari through Angola, a country with little experience of tourists. Her interest in tribal traditions is met by a lofty indifference as to what makes her tick, as long as she makes the 'traditional' donation.
There's nothing routine about overland travel in Madagascar. Donal Conlon has to wade rivers and rent canoes to complete a one-day journey to Diego Suarez that takes him three.
For most visitors to Maputo prawns are a treat that you find on your plate. Donal Colon joins the fishermen to experience the thrill of catching them in the wild.
Donal Conlon loses his bus in a small truckstop on the way to Ethiopia's buried churches. With no Amharic he has little alternative but to (try to) hitch.
Blaine Bonham meets the 'Blue Men', the ancient Berber tribe that inhabits the Sahara Desert. He meets them amongst the dunes of Morocco's Erg Chebbi region.
Lee Ruddin finds oases of calm in Morocco's most visited city. Along with the locals he takes refuge in the many public gardens that are part-hidden in Marrackesh.
The DRC is a strikingly mis-named country, finds Ben Cooke. It's undemocratic, for a start, and a republic only in name. He starts in Lubumbashi, heads into the hinterlands of small-town Kipushi and then braves the capital, Kinshasa. He finds the Congo's reputation for being dangerous has been superseded by its capacity to relentlessly hassle any visitor - especially if carrying a camera - and he finds the unremitting focus on a lone white traveller forces his mind into solitary reflection.
In the Seventies while the Foreign Legion tries to suppress the resistance to French colonial rule, Colin Wallace finds a way to help at least one Algerian.
Perhaps it's bad luck that when Colin Wallace joins the Foreign Legion they happen to be fighting the Algerian War. He starts to realise he's on the wrong side.
Karen Beattie introduces Project Luangwa, a ground-breaking charity working in one of Zambia's most beautiful parks. This is a way to sponsor a child through school - and know there's an actual child at the end of it. Click through and remember it's Christmas.
On a bar-crawl through Tangiers in the seventies, Colin Wallace misses some big warning signs that he's out of his depth and being soft-soaped by drug smugglers.
Some American foreign adventures are actually useful. Jack Barker reports on a new initiative to preserve West Africa's critically endangered wildlife.
When a ranger in the Southern Luangwa Valley spots a hyena that's picked up a snare he sends for the Zambian Carnivore Programme, who dart to the rescue. Emily Hayes tells to the fairytale ending.
Anyone wanting to trek East Africa's great mountains should look beyond the obvious peaks. Adele Cutler says Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains have far more to offer.
In its prime, the Roman Empire stretched across all Europe and deep into Africa. Sankar Chatterjee visits Volubilis, the great Roman city built in Morocco.
Trails of visitors labour up Kilimanjaro, but look at Africa's other mountains and you'll almost always have them to yourself. Adele Cutler has some suggestions for high-altitude adventures.