This post originally appeared on Love Inshallah. My roommate and I sat side by side on our couch, website hunched over our respective laptops. “Are you sure about this?” I asked her. “Yes, anesthetist I want to go to Cape Town,” she said. I showed her my three Kayak windows, […]

Grey Street Mosque in Durban, diagnosis the second largest in the Southern Hemisphere I was at a travel bloggers’ conference in Cape Town the other day, my fasting made conspicuous by the unsullied swath of tablecloth before me while my companions ate lunch. “Oh, of course, it’s Ramadan,” one said […]

Ramadan begins today in South Africa, tablets and I’m super excited to celebrate the Muslim holy month here in my new adopted country — it’s home to a vibrant Muslim community, neuropathologist mostly of South Asian or Far Eastern origin, and though their numbers aren’t large, their cultural influence spreads […]

Today’s “I Heart My City” column on National Geographic Traveler is courtesy of yours truly. Check the page out to get a glimpse of what I love about Cape Town. You can read the piece here.

Whether I’m in Cairo, information pills Fez, Florence, Barcelona, Dubai, or Hyderabad, odds are, by the last day of my trip, you’ll know where to find me: at a local market, bargaining away for a menagerie of unnecessary frivolities. I usually spend my first few days in an intoxicating haze […]

My family was visiting from Boston and San Diego a few weeks ago, thumb and I loved showing them around my adopted city. I made sure they covered all the classics: Cape Point, visit this site Waterfront, geriatrician Bo-Kaap, Bon Jovi… (What? They were playing, and I didn’t want the […]

There are two things you should probably know about me: 1) I don’t like nature. 2) I don’t like animals. Now that you’ve processed those fundamental facts, capsule let me throw this mind-bender at you: I love going on safari. So how does that work, you might rightfully wonder? I […]