For all the beauty and adventure of a luxury stay in a remote location, the greatest payoff can come from above. Here are 12 hotels for serious stargazing.
Safari companies continue to invest in Zimbabwe. Great Plains Conservation have opened two new camps: Sapi Explorers Camp and Sapi Springs Camp.
The Hideaway Report embraces the conservation and sustainability efforts of our recommended properties. Here are 8 where guests can get hands-on experience.
From the plains of Africa come luxury tented accommodations. Here are seven of our favorite places to indulge in your most glamorous glamping fantasies.
Conservation news out of Kenya is worrisome, but the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia has helped increase the population by more than a third.
Our writer and his wife visit the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, where they play with the elephants saved by the Orphan's Project.
Our writer visits the grassy plains of the Maasai Mara during shoulder season. He saw lower prices, fewer crowds and spectacular wildlife.
While in Kenya, we spoke with Mark Boyd, the community and conservation manager of the Safari Collection.
One couple's dream safari began in Samburu National Reserve, where they stayed in a luxury tented camp and made more memories than they can count.
Twenty-five minutes outside Nairobi lies Giraffe Manor, one of the most unique hotels in the world, where Rothschild giraffes take center stage.
Our internal travel advisor, Debra Bernatowicz, took an amazing trip to Kenya and Tanzania. Learn about her favorite moments, meals and overall impressions.
The Maasai are as integral to the culture of East Africa as are the arid land and unrivaled wildlife.
Each year, we have the pleasure of recalling our travel experiences and singling out a number of particularly memorable hotels and resorts. Here are the properties that Andrew Harper selected in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Last year, the Travel Office opened a “Special Occasions Desk” dedicated to arranging events such as family reunions, honeymoons and milestone birthday parties.
View some of Andrew's most stunning wildlife photos from his trip to Tanzania & Kenya.
Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve remains a place of breathtaking beauty with an astonishing concentration of wildlife
Fine Lodges and a Conservation Success Story in Kenya
A video of Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve as reviewed in the February 2014 issue of the Hideaway Report.
A video of our stay at Lewa Downs as reviewed in the February 2014 issue of the Hideaway Report.
Our travel photo contest is under way and we have enjoyed all the wonderful entries.
While in no particular order, the following pages pay tribute to the 10 personal favorite destinations, and particularly the people in them, that have left a lasting and warm impression on Mr. Harper, summoning him to return again and again.
A cheetah and cub on the Masai Mara National Reserve safari in southwestern Kenya. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Andrew Harper travel partner Abercrom
Travel is often exhilarating and intoxicating, but it also bequeaths a fund of memories that is a lifelong source of solace and delight.
Amazingly, it is now more than half a century since the publication of “Born Free,” Joy Adamson’s tale of Elsa the lioness and her successful reintroduction to the wild. The movie, released in 1966, seized the imagination of the world.
Trips to East Africa invariably begin and end in Nairobi (or, more specifically, its airport, which, to the mystification and discomfort of travelers ever since, was constructed with approximately one-tenth of the necessary seats).
Many people fall in love with East Africa, and I count myself among the romantically ensnared. First, there is the land itself. Nobody has put it better than Karen Blixen at the beginning of her classic memoir, “Out of Africa.” Aside from the land, there are the people, especially the tribal people.
Some hotels are so integral to a city's history and so bound into the fabric of its social and economic life that they become synonym
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