After a few days exploring Nairobi we hopped on an overnight train to Mombasa, Kenya's teeming port city on the Indian Ocean.

If we were to start handing out superlatives, rice paddies would easily earn the award for most beautiful crop in the world (though we ...

Buying a last minute ticket to Salvador took up most of the day, but we managed to get it to Ipanema for a cloudy sunset and make our ...