🏆 The classic
★ 4.9
Safari lodges & tented camps
Kenya · Tanzania · Southern Africa
The heart of any safari — from comfortable lodges with pools to canvas tented camps and remote fly-in camps, all-inclusive with game drives and expert guides. Our safari lodges & camps guide has the full detail.
💰 AU $400–2,000+ pp / night
Boutique
★ 4.8
Riads
Marrakech · Fez
Traditional courtyard houses turned intimate boutique hotels, hidden deep in the medina — tranquil, beautiful and quintessentially Moroccan. See our Morocco travel guide.
💰 from AU $120 pp / night
Iconic
★ 4.7
Nile cruises
Luxor · Aswan
A floating hotel that drifts between the temples of Upper Egypt — unpack once and let Karnak, the Valley of the Kings and Abu Simbel come to you. See our Egypt travel guide.
💰 3–7 night sailings
Beach
★ 4.8
Beach resorts
Zanzibar · the islands
The classic safari finale — white sand and turquoise water on Zanzibar, Mauritius, the Seychelles or the Mozambique coast, from barefoot lodges to five-star resorts. See our Tanzania travel guide.
💰 from AU $250 pp / night
City
★ 4.8
City hotels
Cape Town · Nairobi · Marrakech
Design hotels beneath Table Mountain, colonial classics and modern city stays — the comfortable bookends to a safari or a wider African journey. See our South Africa travel guide.
💰 from AU $150 pp / night
Remote
★ 4.7
Desert camps
Namibia · the Sahara
Sleep among the dunes — eco-camps at Sossusvlei and the Namib, or Berber tents under the stars at Erg Chebbi in the Moroccan Sahara. See our Southern Africa guide.
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