Desert medinas, wild coastlines, and the great savanna.
A spice island where a labyrinth of carved-door alleys opens onto some of the Indian Ocean's most improbable beaches — and every meal tastes of the monsoon trade winds that built it.
A twelve-hundred-year-old medina with the world's oldest university at its heart, and a mountain range that rises from cedar forest to the roof of North Africa. Morocco doesn't get more elemental than this.
From a mountain that rises straight out of the Atlantic to a ribbon of coast strung with lagoons, forests and whale-haunted bays — this is South Africa at its most cinematic.
The great migration keeps its own calendar. Here is how to plan a first Serengeti safari around it — choosing your parks, budgeting for fees, and travelling responsibly across the plains.
The old city is designed to disorient — and that is exactly why you should surrender to it. A guide to the souks, the squares, and the art of the bargain.