Sub-Saharan Tented Camps: A Working Map of the Continent’s Best

A luxury canvas safari tent in Africa at sunset with the warm orange light of the African sky behind it, a herd of elephants visible in the middle distance crossing a dry riverbed and acacia trees in silhouette.

The first tented camp I stayed at, on the Linyanti floodplain in northern Botswana in 2014, was an honest object lesson in what the format actually delivers. The « tent » was a permanent canvas-walled structure with a hardwood deck, fully plumbed bathroom, four-poster bed and air conditioning. The wildlife was meaningfully closer than at any conventional … Lire la suite

Patagonia Luxury Lodges: A Season Guide to the Far South

The Torres del Paine massif at sunrise with the granite spires lit in pink and orange light against a clear sky, the dark waters of a glacial lake in the foreground reflecting the peaks.

The view from the bar at Tierra Patagonia, a long horizontal building perched on the eastern edge of Lago Sarmiento and pointing toward the Torres del Paine massif twenty-five kilometres away, is a kind of standardised wonder. Almost everyone who arrives spends the first ten minutes in silence at the floor-to-ceiling windows, processing the geographic … Lire la suite