Category: Africa

Glass discovers Le Quartier Francais, a bijou retreat in South Africa’s Western Cape

September 19, 2023

ARRIVING at Franschhoek from Cape Town, the frantic city falls away, and the calm of the mountains washes over me. Nestled in the heart of the town is Le Quartier Francais, a boutique hotel located on a laid b...

Glass learns to track big cats in South Africa

David Dodge

November 23, 2022

Africa, News

ON THE SHORT drive to my accommodations at Tswalu, a private wildlife reserve in South Africa in the southern Kalahari, we pass a group of zebras, some giraffe, and two cheetahs. It’s a little unusual to see so...

Fairmont open new hotel in the heart of the Moroccan riviera, The Tazi Palace Tangier

Ben Sanderson

November 7, 2022

Africa, News, Travel

A HISTORICAL landmark has been reinvigorated with the recent opening of Fairmont’s latest residence in Morocco. Overlooking the city of Tangier in the midst of a secluded hillside, the new venture is sure to gi...

Glass goes on a luxury exploration of Egypt and the Nile Valley

Sean Sheehan

August 2, 2022

Africa, Feature, Travel

EGYPT IS full of surprises and one of the first comes with realising that the pyramids of Giza are only 20 kilometres from central Cairo. There they were, standing in front of me – looking exactly like you expe...

Wilderness Safaris welcomes guests back to its remote luxury camps in Namibia

Joshua Hendren

November 3, 2020

Africa, Feature, News, Travel

AS NAMIBIA reopens its borders to international travellers, Wilderness Safaris, Africa’s leading sustainable ecotourism operator, is welcoming guests back to its exceptional selection of remote camps. These inc...

Glass finds a paradisical hideaway in Mozambique – White Pearl Resorts

Amanda Bernstein

October 19, 2020

Africa, Feature, Travel

WHITE Pearl Resorts is the kind of destination that Robin Crusoe wished he had been shipwrecked upon. A 90-minute drive from Maputo Airport or 40 minutes from the South African Kosi Bay border, this luxury lodg...

Lifting the lid on The Oyster Box, Umhlanga, South Africa

Amanda Bernstein

September 28, 2020

Africa, Feature, Travel

AS the bell is sounded, everyone peers towards the ocean. We spot a large pod of dolphins playfully jumping in and out of the ocean as they swim past us. This ritual has been taking place every day for many yea...

Glass heads to Cape Town and finds a city that has it all

Charlie Navin-Holder

February 25, 2020

Africa, Feature, Travel

FOR those who’ve never been to Cape Town, which included myself prior to this trip, it’s difficult to pin down exactly what makes it so great. The core of the problem is that there ceases to be a unique selling...

One&Only opens second luxury resort in Rwanda

Lexi Fadina

November 18, 2019

Africa, News, Travel

RWANDA, East Africa is now the location of a brand new One&Only Gorilla’s Nest luxury resort, which opened its doors at the beginning of November. Located in Kinigi, in the foothills of the Virunga volca...

Glass stays at Bisate Lodge, Rwanda – the country’s first luxurious safari resort

Amanda Bernstein

December 24, 2018

Africa, Feature, Travel

Glass swings by a family of mountain gorillas and stays at Bisate Lodge, Rwanda’s first luxurious safari resort I WAKE at 5.00am unable to sleep in anticipation for the day ahead. I am trekking to ...

Glass comes close to nirvana in Namibia

Sean Sheehan

February 26, 2018

Africa, Culture, Feature, Travel

OPEN spaces on an epic scale, landscapes that embrace the desolate and the dramatic, an initially disconcerting lack of other people (fellow travellers and Namibians) that soon settles into a comfortable normal...