East Africa

Bisate Lodge, Volcanoes National Park

Bisate sits in the amphitheatre of an eroded volcanic cone in Rwanda’s northwest, its handful of spherical, thatched villas stitched into the...

North Island, Seychelles

North Island is the private-island idea taken to its logical end. A single granitic island in the inner Seychelles, reached by helicopter...

Angama Mara

Angama means “suspended in mid-air” in Kiswahili, and the lodge takes the name literally: two camps of tented suites strung along the...

Giraffe Manor, Nairobi

The photographs are accurate. At this 1930s ivy-clad manor in Langata, endangered Rothschild’s giraffes walk out of the morning mist, put their...

Nairobi, the Green City in the Sun That Never Sits Still

Nairobi is the only capital on earth with a national park inside its city limits, and the fact is usually quoted as...