western sahara travel

• Go Dark

...High-end travel company Abercrombie & Kent offers these vacation l...The Sahara, Morocco. "There is no better place to dream under... timber platforms just outside the park's western border.". The Road to Mandalay, Myanmar. "A beguil...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• September 13, 2010

• Libya Opens Door to Tourists

Libya is into the hundreds of thousands of tourists versus millions in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt," said Rajeev Singh-Molares, a director at the Cambridge, Mass.-based consulting firm Monitor Group, who helped write a report on Libya's economy in 2006. "The biggest problem is Libyan bureaucracy. ... And they're erratic, suddenly deciding they aren't going to admit Americans just as a cruise ship with Americans on board is about to arrive is not a good way to develop tourism," Tony Wheeler, a co-founder of Lonely Planet travel guidebooks, said via e-mail from Australia. Lonely Planet issued its first book solely dedicated to Libya in 2002, and a second edition was released a few months ago. GUIDEBOOK: Lonely Planet's "Libya" by Anthony Ham; http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destina...

... curious looks and friendly "hellos" to westerners. And the sites -- both natural and manmade -- are ...Then there is the great Sahara Desert, which covers more than 90 per cent of the ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009

• Luxury Ecotourism, Dubai-Style

[Al Maha]'s version of ecotourism isn't always ecologically friendly. Its air-conditioned bungalows use lots of water and electricity. And the resort's owner, Emirates Airlines, has introduced non-native plants and more than double the animals than the desert can support, so they need to be fed. Some animals and trees in Al Maha don't belong in the reserve, most notably a herd of scimitar-horned oryx, once native to Africa's Sahara, now extinct in the wild. Conservationists here are struggling to revive the herd after its numbers dropped alarmingly, from 35 to 18. Another misplaced breed is the Thomson's gazelle, a native of east Africa. Getting there: Dubai's airport is served by 110 airlines. Emirates Airlines offers two daily New York-Dubai non-stops. Al Maha is a 40-minute drive fro...

... several other wilderness options in this western-oriented Arab country that has become the Middle E...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 12, 2009

• A Long Way to Go for a Haircut

The wanderer in me was ready, brimming with anticipation," he writes. "Paul Theroux's Sunrise with Seamonsters said it well: 'It is a ridiculous conceit to think that this enormous world has been exhausted of interest. There are still scarcely visited places and there are exhilarating ways of reaching them.' [Rick Antonson]'s travel consultant is the elusive Mohammed, who may be promising more than he can deliver, to more customers than just him. Travel and lodging that were supposed to be exclusive to Antonson's itinerary turned out to be shared with other travellers, frequently at the expense of the kind of solitary excursion Antonson was hoping for. Travelling by train from Dakar, Senegal, to Bamako, Mali, by 4x4 to Essakane and Timbuktu, then by shallow river boat along the Niger ...

... stop for the salt caravans of the Sahara, and a centre of Islamic learning and culture. . E... ensure that those who choose to travel in Western Africa are not run-of-the-mill tourists. Antonson'...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 27, 2009

• Globalization and the nation-state.

... of such novels as Erewhon, Gulliver's Travels, Brave New World, and I984. People are afraid of t... Mozambique, Angola, and Namibia; Peru and western Sahara and Kurdistan. I have probably forgotten a ...

• Behind the Headlines
• Vol. 53 Nbr. 4, June 1996