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  • Wednesday, 21 April, 2021
    Travel
    On a bridge in the South African bush, an old train is reborn as a luxury hotel

    A dozen carriages permanently parked above the Sabie River, Kruger Shalati is a bold departure from the usual safari-camp clichés

  • Saturday, 10 April, 2021
    Travel
    How I fled London for a 1,000-mile trek across Ghana

    Stifled and lost in his city office, Robert Martineau flew to Accra and set out on foot for a remote desert shrine

  • Wednesday, 27 January, 2021
    Travel
    Xigera, the Versailles of the African bush

    An exclusive first look at Botswana’s grand new safari camp — a spectacular monument to a travel industry tycoon

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Travel
    Gorillas with a twist: on a Covid-era safari in Rwanda

    A trickle of lucky tourists are returning for a socially distanced audience with the great apes

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Africa’s year of zero: a special report on the future of wildlife tourism

    The pandemic has stalled tourism across the world. But in Africa the situation is profoundly precarious. When will we be able to go back? And, crucially, what will be the right way to do so? 

  • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Splendid isolation: a trip to remotest Chad

    Journeying to the spectacular desert heart of a long-troubled state

  • Thursday, 2 April, 2020
    Wish I were there...
    Horatio Clare on the Ilha de Moçambique

    In our new series, travel writers tell the story of a distant place they love and long — one day — to revisit

  • Friday, 6 March, 2020
    A journey along Morocco’s Atlantic coast

    Dunes, lagoons and walled towns rich with echoes of explorers and pirates

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    William Dalrymple on the treasures of Algeria

    The country boasts a wealth of little-visited Roman ruins and Ottoman palaces 

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    Travel
    Where to go in 2020: an insiders’ guide

    From the snows of Svalbard to Brexit Britain, travel experts pick their hottest destinations

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    Kasbahs and camels: trekking Morocco’s Mountains of Drought

    Barren landscapes, verdant oases and a glimpse of an ancient nomadic way of life

  • Friday, 23 August, 2019
    Postcard from . . . Namibia: encountering a colonial legacy

    From its museum to its hotel names and cuisine, three decades since independence, the German influence remains strong

  • Friday, 16 August, 2019
    Postcard from . . . Mozambique

    How Chinese investment in a road ‘changed everything’

  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
    8 great swims round the world – from Norway to New York
    Swimming in the desert: a Lake Turkana adventure

    Away from the fertile safari parks, a newly launched trip takes visitors through Kenya’s desolate, dramatic, far north

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    A slow boat down the Nile

    A chic version of the traditional ‘dahabiya’ takes passengers to parts the cruise ships can’t reach

  • Friday, 14 June, 2019
    On a tiny African island, a $100m experiment in sustainable tourism

    Tech entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth is funding a new future for Príncipe

  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
    A shipping container in paradise — yours for $1,900 a night

    On Cosmoledo — a remote, uninhabited coral atoll in the Seychelles — a pioneering eco-camp is welcoming well-heeled castaways

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2019
    Rwanda’s five-star reinvention

    Lavish new camps are opening across the diminutive but astonishingly diverse nation

  • Friday, 15 March, 2019
    FT SeriesPink Sand 2020: a beaches special
    Africa & Indian Ocean beach destinations

    Whale watching from the shore in South Africa, an off-grid retreat on Lake Malawi, white sands in the Seychelles — and much more

  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
    Water world: a journey across the Okavango

    By helicopter, speedboat, dugout canoe and on foot, Mike Carter traverses Botswana’s magical inland delta

  • Tuesday, 19 February, 2019
    Safari school: where guests train to be guides

    Tracking elephants, tagging birds and de-horning rhinos — in South Africa’s Phinda Reserve, tourists get a glimpse of life as a ranger

  • Friday, 4 January, 2019
    Island of the apes: meeting the lucky chimps of Lake Victoria

    In the 1960s, a pioneering conservationist began sending rescued animals to a remote island sanctuary. Now tourists can join them

  • Friday, 21 December, 2018
    A return to Zimbabwe

    Graham Boynton and his daughter head back to his homeland to find abundant wildlife, laidback charm and cautious optimism for the year ahead

  • Thursday, 18 October, 2018
    Travel
    Botswana’s fantastic beasts and where to find them

    Amid the watery labyrinth of the Okavango Delta, a mobile safari offers encounters with nature at its most beautiful and bizarre

  • Friday, 7 September, 2018
    A family road trip along the Nile in Uganda

    A drive along the upper reaches of the river takes in history, nature — and some serious rafting

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