
Man’s history is served
The most ancient inhabited city in the world, Matera has gone from symbol of poverty to European capital of culture in just 20 years, and is now where the finest travellers head for a dive into the Mediterranean life.

The most ancient inhabited city in the world, Matera has gone from symbol of poverty to European capital of culture in just 20 years, and is now where the finest travellers head for a dive into the Mediterranean life.

A dozen men-like silhouettes walk through the luminescence of 50,000 spheres of light. Gently rocking in the night breeze of the desert on their fibreglass stems, the spheres dimming from red to blue through purple and white

Safaris are all about seeing. As my plane is landing in an airstrip in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans a limitless landscape unfolds before our eyes. In the following days, I would receive a master-class on seeing.