By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
I’d not really thought about Réunion, until I was heading for Mauritius, but it’s only 200km to the west so why not pop over for a few days? Réunion is in fact much closer to Mauritius than Rodrigues, the second island of Mauritius. In area it’s slightly larger (2512 ...
▲ A serious Mauritian sunset from the west coast resort beach strip of Flic-en-Flac. What a great name – ‘Flic-en-Flac’ most likely means ‘Free and Flat Land’, a name derived from an Old Dutch phrase ‘Fried Landt Flaak’ that reflects the area's historically open and l...
▲ Like the Maldives, east across the Indian Ocean – the 115 islands of the Seychelles archipelago are holiday islands. Love the Seychelles? Lots of people do. I wasn’t in the Seychelles long – for me it was a stepping stone from Dubai to Mauritius – and I only visited...
Having spent a week exploring the coast and north of Algeria – Algiers, east to Constantine and Setif, west to Oran, a number of Roman ruins sites – some of my group now head south to the Sahara. We’re going to spend five days trekking and camping through the Sahara, ...
Algeria, it’s been on my ‘wish list,’ my ‘must do’ list for far too long and I finally got around to it. Two weeks in Algeria, a week in the North – big cities, the coast, Roman ruins – and then another week in the South – exploring the Sahara desert from Djanet, clos...
© Tony Wheeler’s Travels 2013