Share a Story

Tell the Story behind the place

A memory, tradition, personal journey, or cultural detail can help another traveler understand more than a map alone can show.

Place

Lake Chala Taveta Home Base

What we need: Country, Home Base, your Story, name, email, credit preference, permission, and the human check are required. Your email is never displayed publicly.

Your Story

What should Across Africa understand?

Write in your own voice. An editor may follow up, verify details, and work with you before anything is published.

Country:

Choose the country where this Story belongs.

Home Base:

Choose an existing Home Base or propose one for editorial review.

Proposed Home Base name:

This remains private until an editor reviews it.

What kind of Story is this?

Give your Story a title:

A working title is fine; an editor may refine it.

Story introduction:

A short opening that introduces the Story beneath its title.

Opening narrative:

Begin the narrative in your own words. Add ordered sections below for days, stages, places, or other meaningful parts.

Why does this Story matter here?

Optional. Explain what a traveler would understand differently after reading it.

Narrative sections

Build the Story in order

Add days, stages, places, or other sections. Use Move up and Move down to set their reading order.

Narrative section

New section

Section/day/date label:

Optional. Examples: Day 4, October 31, 1996, or The Market.

Section title:

Examples: Arrival in Nanyuki or Point Lenana.

Section narrative:

Optional Story map

Add locations to this Story

Use an existing Across Home Base or Place when available. For a Story-only location, enter its name, coordinates, and coordinate source. Locations are shown as points; the Story will not invent a route between them.

Add locations to this Story

Story location

New location

Location name:

The name visitors will see on the Story map.

Location source:

Across location:

Choose an existing Home Base or Place when one fits.

Latitude:

Longitude:

Coordinate accuracy:

Coordinate source:

For a custom point, say where the coordinates came from.

Short map note:

Narrative section:

Optional. Connect this location to a day or section.

Story photos

Add photographs

Photos are optional. Originals remain private while an editor reviews the Story.

Main Story photo:

Optional. Choose one JPEG, PNG, or WebP image, up to 10 MB. It remains private until the Story is accepted.

Main photo caption:

Main photo description:

Describe the important visual detail for visitors who cannot see it.

Narrative photographs

Place each photograph

Choose whether each image follows the introduction, a narrative section, or remains in the end gallery.

Additional photograph

New photograph

Photograph:

Photo description:

Describe the important visual detail for visitors who cannot see it.

Caption:

Manual photo/date label:

Optional public wording, entered manually; no EXIF date is inferred.

Exact photo date:

Approximate period:

Use this only when an exact date is not known.

Narrative placement:

Narrative section:

Additional photographs without JavaScript

Add Story photos:

Optional. Select up to 8 more images. They remain private until the Story is accepted.

Additional photo captions:

Optional. Enter one caption per line, in the same order as the photos.

Additional photo descriptions:

Optional. Enter one accessibility description per line, in the same order as the photos.

These photographs will remain in the end gallery. An editor can refine their placement during review.

Public credit

How should we recognize you?

You may remain private, use your own name, or request credit for a channel, business, or community. We will confirm any final public credit with you.

How should we credit you if we publish it?

Channel, business, or community name:

Required only when crediting a channel, business, community, or another public name.

Before you submit

How can we reach you?

We use these private details only to discuss or verify your submission.

Your name:

Required. Kept private unless you ask us to credit you by name.

Your email:

Required. Kept private and used only if we have a question.

Human check: What is 7 + 5?

Required. This simple check helps prevent automated submissions.

I wrote or may share this Story and agree to the privacy and sharing terms. I understand that Across may independently verify, edit, or choose not to publish it.

Preview

Check the Story sequence

Preview the order before submitting. This preview stays in your browser and does not publish anything.

Nothing is published automatically.