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    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Travel
      On the frontline of wildlife tourism in South Sudan

      A trickle of very wealthy, very adventurous tourists are discovering the world’s youngest country has wildlife riches like nowhere else

      Boma National Park
    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Whose gorillas are more famous?

      Being the only black tourist on a Ugandan gorilla trek throws up difficult questions about how African countries market themselves to western visitors

      Mountain gorilla
    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Travel
      A Botswana safari by bike

      Visitors are being invited to swap the comfort — and security — of a jeep for the chance to explore the Okavango Delta on two wheels

      Two men ride on bikes next to a tree
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      Travel
      Socotra: rediscovering the ‘island abode of bliss’

      A trickle of tourists are returning to explore the white sands and dark mountains of an island like no other

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Travel
      In search of the ‘village of the elephants’, deep in the central African rainforest

      Every day, forest elephants emerge from the jungle to congregate in greater numbers than anywhere else on earth

    • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
      Travel
      The mystical mountains at the heart of the Sahara

      A five-day journey deep into Algeria’s Hoggar range culminates at the summit retreat where Christian hermits maintain a desert vigil

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Travel
      Saving orphan elephants in Samburuland

      In remote northern Kenya, the semi-nomadic Samburu are finding new ways of navigating challenging times

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Travel
      Riding with the wildebeest: a horseback safari across the Maasai Mara

      Cantering alongside giraffes, camping among lions and fleeing a charging elephant — this riding adventure is not for the faint-hearted

      A woman on horseback trots along a grassy plain
    • Saturday, 20 August, 2022
      Travel
      Tanzania’s mountain marvels

      The Ulugurus offer unique wildlife and glimpses of a historic matrilineal culture

      A hazy vista of peaks is framed by palm trees
    • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
      Travel
      Discovering Dakar, the coastal capital on Africa’s westernmost tip

      The rally is long gone, but Sarah Provan relishes the city’s laidback streetlife, beaches and markets — plus a pink lake and a North Korean behemoth

    • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
      HTSIThe best (seriously) remote retreats
      Alone with the animals in Tanzania’s newest national park

      On land previously used for hunting, Ugalla River National Park boasts an abundance of wildlife and a landscape empty of people

    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      Special Report
      Investing in Mauritius

      The island has worked hard to repair its Covid-damaged economy, especially tourism. We look into its status as an offshore centre, the ecological impact of a 2020 oil spill, new tax laws, manufacturing, and the Chagos islanders’ half century of exile

      Seafront of the Mauritian capital, Port Louis
    • Monday, 7 February, 2022
      FT SeriesFive great off-road adventures
      Walking with camels: a Kenyan adventure

      A multi-day, camel-supported hike ventures ‘off-map’ to reveal wonders big and small

    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      In Tanzania, a Robinson-Crusoe retreat offers hospitality and hope

      Just off Zanzibar, Chumbe Island is a small but successful model of how tourism and conservation can work together

    • Sunday, 17 October, 2021
      Travelista
      Top cats: five wild African escapes to book now

      Encounter the raw beauty of the continent, from the Karoo to the Nile

      Boulders Safari Camp
    • Sunday, 15 August, 2021
      HTSI
      Pink places to lap up la vie en rose

      Discover the palaces, hotels and sanctuaries designed to celebrate this most palliative of hues

    • Thursday, 5 August, 2021
      Travelista
      Travel news: chic new hotels to fly for

      Time to start south-of-France dreaming, plus dining with giraffes

      Château de la Messardière in the St Tropez hills
    • Saturday, 29 May, 2021
      Travel
      Luxor in limbo

      With hotels and temples all but empty, a listless quiet has fallen on the ancient city — but the tourists are sorely missed

    • Saturday, 22 May, 2021
      Travel
      How To Spend It: The Travel Issue

      Whether you want to climb, camp, club, drink the culture or stay quite close to home, we’ve found the perfect escapes for Summer 2021

    • Thursday, 20 May, 2021
      How To Spend It: The Travel Issue
      How Jack’s Camp kept its cool

      It started as a rough oasis in the desert and became a legendary safari destination in the Kalahari. Now it’s had a major makeover. We get the first taste

    • 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

      Kruger Shalati, a luxury hotel in a train, on a bridge
    • 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

      Herders in northern Ghana
    • 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
      HTSI
      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? 

      Elephants on the move in Tanzania’s Grumeti Reserves
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