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This is wild Botswana at its best.

An elegant new lodge—the first to be built in the most untouched corner of the Okavango Delta—offers guests unparalleled immersion and exclusive wildlife viewing in the Moremi Game Reserve.

There's perhaps no better place for a soft landing in Cape Town.

A microcosm of heavenly Mana Pools itself, where the scenery unfurls to reveal many species of wild game at once—all from the comfort of a sprawling suite.

Setting up residence in a land of giants, a bold new camp with big ideas promises intimate encounters with some of Africa’s last super tuskers

An intimate “micro-camp” that proves the best safaris happen when the wildlife comes to you

Now the highest building on the Shela village skyline

A gear-shift in the city’s hotel scene

An instant classic

Treehouse-like rooms in Africa’s oldest sand forest

A sleek contemporary hotel on the edge of the laidback Moroccan capital.

A nothing-is-impossible hideaway for adventurous high-fliers. 

A beautiful place in which to revel in huge skies and the wide stretches of one of Africa’s great rivers.

A bigger, brighter, and bolder expansion of the famed Marrakech hotel.

A bespoke hideaway overlooking the Atlas Mountains at the edge of the Moroccan desert.

One of the best places in Africa to see leopards in the wild.

This collection of camps within one vast private reserve gives you a front-row seat to the migration.

There's no competing with Mena House's location at the foot of the Giza pyramids—we're talking once-in-a-lifetime views guaranteed from most corners of the property. The grounds have history, too, from when an 1800s hunting lodge for the Egyptian royal family stood here, to when it hosted the likes of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. As tends to happen with hotels that have an incomparable selling point (see: pyramid-side location), the rooms in the main building are just fine. But nab a pyramid view room for a stay you won't forget—or keep an eye out for the palace rooms, which are undergoing renovations and should reveal a new level of luxury for the property in 2024 or 2025. —Megan Spurrell