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By Jackie Caradonio - 8th October 2018
These philanthropic travel experiences are sending donors on unforgettable journeys. Nicola Shepherd won’t take you on safari unless you’re willing to work for it. The founder of the UK’s Explorations Company has been organizing travel to Africa for nearly ...
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By Lisa Grainger - 15th September 2018
I feel as though I’m in an opening sequence in David Attenborough’s Planet Earth. I’m in a 12-seat Cessna, soaring over a vast watery wilderness that has been set aside exclusively for wildlife. There aren’t many holidays in which the journey is as thrillin...
By Livia Hoosen - 25th August 2018
This 12-day safari immerses guests in the conservation efforts happening across the Kenyan bush—endangered rhino and giraffe sightings included. Seriously over-the-top safaris seem to be swinging into our viewfinders more than ever. With everything from exc...
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By Alice Grahns - 29th June 2018
From São Tomé and Principe – “Africa’s Galápagos” – to the world’s largest water fall, Iguazú Falls, Alice Gråhns reports on some secluded holidays for nature lovers. Principe erupts from the Atlantic, vertiginous incisors of jungle-clad rock spiking toward...
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By Samuel Gebre - 27th June 2018
An incredible mix of culture, history, and wildlife makes this a destination unlike any other. Ethiopia is racing toward a bright, modern future. It’s one of the world’s fastest-growing economies; the capital, Addis Ababa, is expanding at breakneck pace; an...
By Jackie Caradonio - 23rd May 2018
Chad, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan are all on the brink of tourism booms. Who’s coming with us? It wasn’t long ago that 2020 sounded more like the title of the next science-fiction blockbuster than a year we’d actually live to see. But as the 21st century’s teen...
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By Financial Times Journalist Lucia Van Der Post - 3rd May 2018
The first time I went to Tanzania’s famed Serengeti – some 40 years ago now – I was awestruck by what I found there. We stayed in simple government lodges, which, apart from some mobile camps and a couple of small private ones, were all there was. Butter an...
By Jackie Caradonio - 30th April 2018
If the royal couple have an adventurous streak—then a trip to Chad is just the honeymoon trip to scratch the intrepid itch. “The dreamy, Bedouin-style Camp Nomade in Zakouma National Park is so exclusive and in such high demand, most people have to wait unt...
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By Francisca Kellett - 19th April 2018
To celebrate Earth Day on April 22, here's our pick of the most glamorous, green and groovy hotels on the planet. Run by the lively ex-mayor of Quito, Roque Sevilla, Mashpi Lodge is a labour of love hidden high in the Ecuadorian cloud forest. The 3,200-acre...
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By Kristen Shirley - 30th March 2018
Head off the beaten path with The Explorations Company.This private safari will begin with a stay at Kifaru House - atop a hill in Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy - the perfect headquarters for day and night game drives, nature walks and camel rides. You'...
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By Christabel Milbanke - 5th March 2018
A breath-taking safari to the heart of Africa, where close encounters with elephants and leopards stir the soul. This transports seekers of adventure to key conservation lodges across Kenya via breath-taking bespoke flight-paths. Its specially outfitted, 11...
By Laurie Werner - 16th February 2018
Madagascar’s Miavana brings new frills and thrills to this African oasis. An unrivalled combination of wildlife, jungle, mountains, and beach, this island nation the size of Kenya is equal parts natural laboratory, adventure playground, and pure paradise. W...
By Jeremy Paxman - 9th February 2018
In Zambia’s Lower Zambezi national park, the FT writer finds that nothing unhinges one’s sense of self quite like the wild.
Seeing Africa’s great migration is a bucket-list ambition for many, and this is perhaps the ultimate way to tick it off. This trip pu...
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By Richard Madden - 5th February 2018
This unique air safari to study the plight of Kenya’s endangered wildlife will transport guests to the most remote and inaccessible parts of the country (Maasai Mara, Laikipia, Samburu, Lewa) while meeting world experts including Saba Douglas-Hamilton and t...
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By Travel Africa Editor's Pick - 30th November 2017
Sudan is yet to feel the effects of mass tourism. It is honest, welcoming, safe, fascinating – and you pretty much have most of the major sites to yourself! So when we heard that experienced tour operator Albee Yeend, of The Explorations Company, had recent...
By Nikki Ekstein - 6th November 2017
These places have all the visual splendor and historic appeal of the world’s most famous monuments. But few tourists have been able to see them—until now. If visiting the world's most ancient temples and monuments—Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu, Chichen Itza, Pet...
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By Lisa Granger - 1st September 2017
This year sees the first three-day Explorations Company heli – safari into northern Kenya. Each day, the helicopter will traverse extremely different terrain: one day, the plains of Sirikoi, to see black rhino; the next the Matthews Range, to hike in ancien...
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By Mike Richard - 15th August 2017
These days, getting to Antarctica is a virtual cake-walk — even your granny is probably fit enough to board a polar cruise. But, truly exploring the interior of the lost continent remains almost as difficult today as it was when Scott and Amundsen set out t...
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By Petra Shepherd - 1st August 2017
Tourism can be a force for change and reversing trends, as has been proven in Uganda where an endangered gorilla population is currently enjoying a baby boom. Meeting this powerful but vulnerable species is just one of the many natural experiences on offer ...
By Lauire Werner - 28th June 2017
Madagascar has long been known for its unique biodiversity, from various strands of rainforest-dwelling, wild eyed lemurs to tomato frogs, panther chameleons, Satanic Leaf-tailed geckos and other wildlife that are on view nowhere else in the world. The reas...
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By Douglas Rogers - 25th June 2017
For most of Botswana's history, access to the delta was limited. Local tribes such as the Bayei navigated the channels in dugout canoes known as mokoros, but only the eastern edge of the region, Moremi, had any significant tourism. Today, Botswana's astonis...
By Laurie Werner - 31st May 2017
Beverly and Dereck Joubert’s first trip to Duba Plains in Botswana’s northern Okavango Delta didn’t have an auspicious beginning. The flood plains were high, their vehicle got stuck and they wound up sleeping in it until they could be rescued. But even with...
By Elite Traveler - 6th May 2017
The Explorations Company, a luxury boutique travel company, partners with Arctic Trucks, Antarctic experts who have completed over 125,000 miles on the Antarctic Ice Cap, for a one-time only expedition to cross Antarctica. Up to six people will travel in sp...
By Lauries Werner - 29th April 2017
You don't expect to find a tennis court in Botswana’s Kalahari Desert, especially one made of crushed termite mounds, but there is one such specimen at The Lodge at Feline Fields, which officially opened following the completion of its six suites in January...
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By Marcela Kunova - 20th April 2017
Nicola Shepherd, founder and CEO of The Exploration Company, organises unusual trips for HNW and UHNW clients ranging from birthday parties at an Indian Maharajah's palace to reliving Sir Vivian Fuchs's 1950s expedition to the South Pole. Citywealth caught ...
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By Mei Anne Foo - 13th April 2017
Now you can have breathtaking breakfasts at Mount Everest with views of the world’s highest peak, for an equally sky-high price. It used to be a time-consuming and harrowing experience to get to the Everest Base Camp (EBC) for a glimpse of the world’s highe...
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By Sadie Whitelocks - 7th April 2017
Now you can pop to Mount Everest… for BREAKFAST: The Explorations Company helicopter guests to base camp for Champagne, croissants and a VERY good view. For those looking for a wild breakfast experience. Guests are flown from Kathmandu to the mountains via ...
By John O'Ceallaigh - 7th April 2017
An exertion far beyond the physical abilities of most, scaling Mount Everest successfully is an incredible accomplishment. Lazier or time-poor types can now, however, get a sense of what ascending that fabled peak is like by participating in a helicopter to...
By Nikki Ekstein - 5th April 2017
In December 2017, chefs from Noma and London’s Ledbury built the world’s highest-altitude pop-up restaurant at Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal. It sounded like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and in many ways, it was. But in fact, you can pop up to Evere...
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By Shari Gab - 5th April 2017
Be brave. Be bold. And bring a serious anorak. While it’s not impossible to traverse the South Pole these days, just even contemplating the journey takes some stones of steel. But that’s the Exploration Company’s specialty. And their Antarctica Expedition, ...
