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Indian Ocean
Seychelles, Maldives or Mauritius? How to choose your perfect Indian Ocean escape
Three categorically different destinations that happen to share the same body of water. Choosing between them on the basis of a photograph is where most people go wrong. Here is the conversation that makes the difference.
Safari
Why October is the finest month in Zimbabwe
The rains have not yet arrived. The grass is bleached gold. The animals move towards water with a purpose that is almost ceremonial. I grew up watching this. It still takes my breath away.
Indian Ocean
North Island, Seychelles: the place that makes everything else feel ordinary
Eleven villas. One private island. A conservation story two decades in the making. North Island is one of a very small number of places I have encountered that delivers, without qualification, on everything it promises.
Safari
Hwange in dry season: the elephants, the silence, and what the brochures never tell you
Hwange holds one of Africa's largest elephant populations and some of the finest wild dog encounters on the continent. Almost no one is there to see it. That is precisely the point.
Planning & Advice
The honest guide to planning your first African safari: what nobody else will tell you
The most important decision you will make about your first safari is not where to go. It is who designs it for you. Here is why that is true, and what follows from it.
Cruising
Expedition cruising: why the clients who try it never go back to anything else
Antarctica. The Galapagos. The Amazon. There is a particular kind of traveller who has done everything and found that conventional luxury has stopped surprising them. Expedition cruising surprises them.
Field Notes
A morning at Mana Pools: what walking on foot with lions in the near distance actually feels like
I do not write travel copy. I write what I have seen. This is an account of a single morning at Zimbabwe's finest walking safari destination, and why no vehicle is involved.
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