The Luxury Traveller

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  • Six Top South Africa Safari Lodges

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    With FIFA’s 2010 World Cup soc­cer cham­pi­onships going on now, many eyes are turned toward South Africa. If you haven’t yet vis­ited one of the country’s many lux­ury safari lodges, you are miss­ing out. Hid­den away in the bush, these opu­lent lodges rival the best Euro­pean hotels in terms of ser­vice, food and wine, and…

  • Kensington Tours Discounts Its Sophisticated South Africa Package

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    Eller­man House in Cape Town, South Africa Rep­utable tour pack­ager Kens­ing­ton Tours is offer­ing a new 8-night lux­ury vaca­tion to South Africa. Dubbed “Sophis­ti­cated South Africa,” the pack­age is pri­vately guided so there’s no set depar­ture dates. Go when your sched­ule dic­tates, not some­one else’s. You’ll spend four nights at Eller­man House in Cape Town.…

  • Uniworld Dry Docks River Tosca & Replaces Her with Miriam on Egypt’s Nile River

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    Uni­world Dry Docks River Tosca & Replaces Her with the Miriam on Egypt’s Nile River If you’ve been plan­ning a trip to Egypt, you’ve prob­a­bly read a lot about the new River Tosca ship that Uni­world sails on the Nile River. A Mes­sage from the Pres­i­dent & CEO of Uniworld Dear Val­ued Uni­world Travelers, There has been…

  • Restore an African’s Eyesight with Magellan’s and SEE International

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    I’ve been doing a lot of online hol­i­day shop­ping and recently picked up some nice travel gifts at Magellan’s Travel Sup­plies. When my items arrived, the box also con­tained a flyer about Magellan’s part­ner­ship with a non­profit orga­ni­za­tion called SEE Inter­na­tional. Accord­ing to the orga­ni­za­tion, 75 per­cent of the world’s 37 mil­lion cases of blind­ness…

  • Micro Donations to The Footprints Network Tackles World Poverty

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    Project in Zam­bia with Plan Australia Do you remem­ber the 1999 movie Office Space with Jen­nifer Anis­ton and Ron Liv­ingston? It’s a favorite of mine and if you haven’t seen it, I’ll need to explain one of the plot lines in order to set up this blog post. Liv­ingston plays Peter Gib­bons, who works in an…

  • $950 RT to Johannesburg, South Africa from JFK or IAD

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    South African Air­ways is offer­ing a good deal for econ­omy roundtrip travel from U.S. gate­ways to Johan­nes­burg. From now through April 30, 2010, you can fly roundtrip from New York (JFK) or Wash­ing­ton Dulles (IAD) for $950 per per­son. (Of course, you’ll also pay approx­i­mately $140 for the required gov­ern­men­tal taxes, depar­ture fees, and the…

  • Community Service Projects in South Africa

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    What Else Will You Do Dur­ing the World Cup? Are you head­ing to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa? You’re going to enjoy a few games and maybe go on safari, but have you thought about doing some ser­vice work while you’re there? Ele­vate Des­ti­na­tions has put together a few cus­tomized com­mu­nity tours in South…

  • Holiday Donation List: Abercrombie & Kent Philanthropy

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    I really like what Aber­crom­bie & Kent is doing with its orga­ni­za­tion, Aber­crom­bie & Kent Phil­an­thropy. The tour pack­ager that’s known for high-end expe­di­tions to the far cor­ners of the globe is now offer­ing indi­vid­u­als the chance to be part of the solu­tion to a local prob­lem in a far-off location. As the hol­i­day sea­son…

  • British Airways Gets You to Africa—for Free!

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    Okay, British Air­ways won’t take you to Africa for free, but with a new pro­mo­tion they’ve announced with part­ner credit card Chase Visa, they will give you 100,000 bonus miles that can be used to travel to many amaz­ing African  gate­ways, including: Egypt (Cairo, Hurghada, and Sharm el Sheikh) Kenya (Nairobi) Mau­ri­tius Morocco (Mar­rakech) Namibia (Wind­hoek)…

  • South African Airways Special: $930 RT to JNB from NYC or DC

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    South African Airways South African Air­ways is run­ning a promo for roundtrip econ­omy air from New York or Wash­ing­ton, D.C., from Novem­ber 1–December 9, 2009 and Jan­u­ary 7–April 30, 2010. The roundtrip price is $930 per per­son. Sim­i­lar fares are avail­able from other U.S. gateways. Here’s the fine print: Fare is for travel in econ­omy…