Mike Henry
Battle for the Car Rapide
The most fun public transport option in Dakar, and maybe the world, is the Car Rapide
Sinking into the Senegalese Summer
Good trips take us away from the worlds we know. The best trips throw us headfirst into new worlds.
Photo Thieboudienne: The Mauritanian Sahara
A wild ride deep into the Sahara, and then back to the coast on a train with no seats but a whole lot of iron ore
Iron Ore, Steel Rails, and the Sahara Night
A surreal adventure on what might be the world’s wildest train
Thank you, Zambia
An elegy to my time in Zambia, the country that treated me far better than I deserved
Among Giants on the Lower Zambezi
A lazy, terrifying ride down Southern Africa’s greatest watercourse
Sheep, stone, and smoke: A night with shepherds in Lesotho
Fate brings us to a hut in Lesotho, where we pass the coldest and most surreal night of our lives with teenage shepherds