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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
    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? 

  • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
    HTSI
    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...
    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
    The sheltering shores: 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 

  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2020
    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 . . . Swakopmund: encountering Namibia’s colonial residue

    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: an adventure along the shores of Lake Turkana

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

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