Wide boulevards, Art Deco facades, and the second-largest mosque on earth. Casablanca is the Morocco nobody warns you about, and it deserves far better than its reputation. The first time my family landed in Casablanca, we left the city before we had a chance to see anything. This wasn’t a mistake I was willing to …
Traveling in Tanzania with kids doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Everything your family needs: visas, safari planning, safety, packing, and where to go first. It was around two in the morning when the grunting started. Low, deep, and rough, coming from somewhere just outside the canvas wall of our tent in the Serengeti. Close enough …
The ultimate Tanzania packing list for families: what to wear on safari, in Arusha, and on Zanzibar’s beaches. Real tips from a week on the Northern Circuit. Most families pack for Tanzania as if it were one trip. The truth is, it’s closer to three. There is the dusty, sun-scorched Tanzania of the Northern Circuit, …
Visiting Lake Manyara National Park with kids? Tree-climbing lions, forest game drives, huge elephant herds, and flamingos. Here’s the complete family guide. I was drawn to Lake Manyara National Park by stories of its fantastic tree-climbing lions. I did not see a single tree-climbing lion. I did not, in fact, see a single lion of …
Tanzania’s most underrated park, and the place where my kids fell in love with the wild. Here is everything families need to know before they go. Our guide, Omary, said as we entered through the park gates. “If you want to understand elephants. You come to Tarangire.” My son, Dylan, had counted 58 elephants within …
Planning a family safari to Ngorongoro Conservation Area? From the crater rim to a black rhino sighting, here’s everything families need to know before they go. As I walked to the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, my family stopped dead in our tracks The land ahead of us dropped away into something so vast and …
Planning a Serengeti family safari? Here’s what to expect, where to stay, what you’ll see, and why three days is the minimum for families who want to do this properly. It was around two in the morning when the grunting started. It was low, deep, and coming from somewhere just outside the canvas cover of …
From the Serengeti to Zanzibar’s spice-scented streets, these are the best places to visit in Tanzania for families ready for Africa’s greatest adventure. It was about two in the morning when we heard the grunts. Low, deep, and rough. Lions shuffling around not far from our canvas tent, pitched somewhere in the middle of Serengeti …
Morocco family travel tips for families: visas, safety, getting around, medinas, the Sahara, and everything we learned traveling Morocco with kids There is no country in the world quite like Morocco. Sitting just 9 miles (14 kilometers) from the southern tip of Spain, close enough to see across the Strait of Gibraltar on a clear …
The complete family packing list for Morocco, covering men, women, teens, and kids for summer and winter travel. Built from firsthand family experience across Marrakech, Fes, the High Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert, and the Draa Valley. There’s a photograph from our trip to Merzouga that sits on the wall in our house. The boys …