12 Incredible Africa Trips
EcoPicSet sail on an Arabian dhow and cruise the cyan-blue waters off Mozambique’s Ibo Island.
GettyHave the pyramids (almost) all to yourself and see them like the Victorians did, thanks to a shortage of tourists. Ker & Downey can make it happen.
GettyGo minimalist and sleep on a bedroll under a desert sky in the Kalahari, traveling with A-lister guide and Botswana native Ralph Bousfield.
Ariadne Van ZandbergenTake a helicopter to drop in on Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression. Its glowing lava lake and sulphuric-yellow salt flats make for some of the weirdest landscapes on earth. (Abercrombie & Kent can pull it off for you.)
GettyTiptoe around chimps whose ancestors were brought from Europe in the 1960s to Rubondo Island in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. It’s all part of Asilia’s new rehabituation program.
GettyIt’s thunderstorms as theater at Wild Waters Lodge, which occupies its own island in the rapids of the Ugandan Nile.
GettyRoad-trip through southern Morocco’s palm oases and red dunes on the scenically rugged Route du Sud, ending at the chic 19th-century casbah hotel Dar Ahlam.
GettyTrack tiny elephants through the forest of the Central African Republic alongisde the native Bayaka people and Cherri Briggs of Explore, Inc.
GettyFly an old-school Cessna 210 up Namibia’s Skeleton Coast with boundary-pushing bush pilots, the Schoeman brothers.
GettyHave $116,500? Hit six countries in 19 days between east and south Africa on andBeyond’s new private jet tour.
GettyDrop in on Accra’s booming art scene in the galleries around Stanbic Heights, then shop for silver and bull-horn bracelets and Adinkra fabrics.
Courtesy One Forty EightDo après safari at the art-filled boutique hotel that's a stone's throw from The Giraffe Sanctuary One Forty Eight in Nairobi, created by Elizabeth Fusco Designs.