Condé Nast Traveller

4 days ago | cntraveller.com | Charley Ward

As is sometimes the case, I was in Saint-Tropez for the weekend. I’d just spent a humbling few days on a fitness retreat, where I’d learned I was too weak and too fat, while enjoying some of the most delicious food I’d ever eaten, a couple of blissful massages and plenty of glorious hiking and swimming along the city’s glistening coastline.

1 week ago | cntraveller.com | Chris Schalkx

We'd been plodding through the northern Congolese rainforest for almost two hours when I started to suspect that our guide had lost the plot. Gabin Okele, standing little more than five feet tall in his patched-up rubber boots, madly hacked his machete through the thicket, snipping away snarls of arrowroot and knotty lianas with a pair of garden scissors ("Salad surfing," he called it).

1 week ago | cntraveller.com | Nada El Sawy

Cairo is on most history buffs’ bucket lists, and with the 2025 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, there has never been a better time to start planning that long-awaited trip to the sprawling metropolis that more than 20 million people call home. But Egypt’s capital has so much more to offer than the obvious historic sites. The city reveals itself in layers and it is up to visitors to peel them back. Here are our picks of the best things to do in Cairo. 1.

1 week ago | cntraveller.com | Rosalyn Wikeley

It had been seven years since I last rattled through the pothole-studded dirt roads that snake to Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Last time, David and Robyn Foot (owners of intrepid African horse riding safari Ride Botswana) had edged in experimentally with tents and horse trailers in tow, depositing me, then a feverishly excited young journalist, and our folded camp onto mokoros, which are traditional canoes hewn from Jackalberry bark. These glided through water lilies and reeds, deep into the Delta.

1 week ago | cntraveller.com | Charley Ward

Set the sceneNear the picturesque town of South Tyrol’s Merano under the Dolomites, and within the Texel Group National Park, this is a region deeply steeped in the culture of wellness and outdoor sports. Preidlhof draws both die-hard German hikers, who use the thermal waters and saunas post mountain forays, and guests (like me) in residence for one of the transformational wellness retreats, who barely leave the premises.