One problem with wildlife photography is that the animals don’t pose. This Elephant at Lake Manyara Park in Tanzania seems to be tired of our attempts to take his picture.

I don’t know for sure that this couple was looking for a romantic spot, but they did find one overlooking the Qait Bay Fortress in the harbor of Alexandria, Egypt For more [...]

During the Amateur Traveler Photo tour to Egypt last year we left the larger group we were traveling with and explored a market in Alexandria. I love markets. There is so much [...]

Until felled by an earthquake in the 14th century the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria stood at this spot. In the 15th century a local Sultan built this fortress using, at least in [...]

Each of the last 3 years the travel blogging community has gotten together this time of year to do something useful. This effort is call Passports with Purpose. This year Passports with [...]

Resting in the branches of a shade tree, this female leopard was spotted at a distance in Sandibe, a private concession in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. Because it is a private [...]

The traditional Boma of the Maasai people in Tanzania is a series of huts made from sticks, mud and cow dung surrounding an inner wooden corral and surrounded outside by an outer [...]

These statues of an Egyptian Pharaoh are unusual because the Pharaoh depicted is not a man but instead Queen Hatshepsut who ruled Egypt for about 22 years as “regent”. You may not [...]

This mosque at the Temple of Luxor in Egypt has a door that seems to have been inconveniently located well above the ground. The door is at ground level, but the temple [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Kim Mance about traveling to the mountain kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa. Lesotho is a small mountainous region surrounded by South Africa but is an independent [...]