Africa

A whole holiday in one country

Cape Town, the winelands, the Garden Route and Kruger's private reserves — safari and city in one trip.

The migration, and the Mara

The great migration, private conservancies and nights under canvas with nothing between you and the wild.

Serengeti and Zanzibar

The Serengeti plains, Ngorongoro crater and a barefoot week on Zanzibar to finish.

Riads, dunes and mountain passes

Marrakech's medina, the Atlas mountains and Sahara camps under an unpolluted sky.

The Nile, and everything on it

Pyramids, Luxor's tombs and a slow dahabiya sail down the Nile — history at a scale nowhere else matches.

Desert on a cinematic scale

Sossusvlei's dunes, the Skeleton Coast and desert-adapted wildlife across enormous empty distances.

Water, wilderness and low volumes

The Okavango Delta by mokoro, Chobe's elephants and camps that host a dozen guests at a time.

Victoria Falls and great guiding

The falls at full flow, Hwange's elephants and some of the finest safari guides on the continent.

Walking safaris, done first

South Luangwa invented the walking safari, and it is still the best place on earth to do one.

An hour with mountain gorillas

Volcanoes National Park gorilla trekking, followed by Nyungwe's chimpanzees and Lake Kivu's shore.

Gorillas, and much more

Bwindi's gorillas, tree-climbing lions in Ishasha and the Nile at its source.

Indian Ocean, easy

Resort-led island holidays with reefs, golf and mountains inland — one of the simplest long-haul beach weeks from India.

Granite boulders and empty sand

Mahé, Praslin and La Digue — the most photogenic beaches in the Indian Ocean, and far quieter than you'd expect.

Nowhere else on earth

Lemurs, baobab avenues and endemic species across an island that evolved almost entirely alone.

Rock churches and highlands

Lalibela's rock-hewn churches, the Simien mountains and the world's oldest coffee culture.

Roman ruins and Saharan edges

Carthage, Roman amphitheatres, whitewashed coastal towns and desert oases within easy reach.