Luxury Escapes

The ferry from Dar es Salaam pulls into Zanzibar’s Stone Town at dusk. The light falls on carved wooden doors and coral-stone walls painted in the salt air. A man …

The guide was not expecting visitors. It was seven in the morning on the Lasta Plateau, 2,500 metres above sea level in northern Ethiopia. He led the group down through …

When travellers plan island holidays, the destinations that come to mind first are rarely African. The Maldives. Bali. The Greek islands. Barbados. These are places that have been sold to …