The Luxury Traveller

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  • Gorillas Visit Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Camp in Uganda

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    Check out this amaz­ing pho­to­graph cour­tesy of Sanc­tu­ary Gorilla For­est Camp. Tucked away in Bwindi Impen­e­tra­ble For­est in Uganda, Sanc­tu­ary Gorilla For­est Camp was recently host to some unex­pected vis­i­tors. One of our guests at camp fell sick and had to for­sake his long awaited dream of gorilla track­ing. For­tu­nately, the goril­las decided to visit…

  • Newly Habituated Gorilla Family in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

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    Posted on October 14th, 2009 by Andrea M. Rotondo Excit­ing news for the gorilla pop­u­la­tion in Uganda… A newly habit­u­ated gorilla fam­ily with 30 mem­bers was launched for tourism on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2009. Chris­tened the Nshongi group, the fam­ily is located in Rushaga on the south­west­ern part of Bwindi Impen­e­tra­ble National Park. This is the…

  • World Cup Deal: South Africa’s Cape Town and Thornybush

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    A flurry of South Africa travel pack­ages are being announced now that the 2010 World Cup is only eight months away. Here’s a 15-day adven­ture from Africa Adven­ture Con­sul­tants that com­bines 10 nights in Cape Town (or other cities), two soc­cer matches in Cat­e­gory 1 (best) seats, and a four-night game safari at Thorny­bush Pri­vate…

  • Travel2Egypt Launches Its Luxury Trip Planning Service

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    There’s a new lux­ury travel com­pany offer­ing cus­tomized, upscale vaca­tions to Egypt: Travel2Egypt. This endeavor is an off­shoot of Travelive.com, and pres­i­dent Panos Chal­vantzis explained why this new ven­ture is focus­ing on Egypt: “Egypt offers great value for money with five-star accom­mo­da­tions and excep­tional ser­vice. From its cul­tural and his­tor­i­cal trea­sures, to serene Nile Cruises,…

  • Accolades Pile Up for &Beyond Kichwa Tembo in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve

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    A vari­ety of 2009 travel awards have been announced recently and &Beyond’s Kichwa Tembo in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve is rack­ing up the accolades. Travel + Leisure hon­ored Kichwa Tembo with a World’s Best Award for 2009 and Condé Nast Trav­eler added the lodge to its Gold List of the World’s Best Places to Stay.…

  • Philanthropic Journey to Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro

    Philanthropic Journey to Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro

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    “I’ve dis­cov­ered that for those who try to climb Kili, the moun­tain is almost always a metaphor. You climb it not just to reach the sum­mit, but to prove some­thing to your­self,” says Richard Wiese, for­mer pres­i­dent of The Explor­ers Club.  “How­ever, for thought­ful trav­el­ers, there is a respon­si­bil­ity to research and choose a com­pany…

  • Learn the Art of Tracking with Orient-Express Safaris

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    Orient-Express Safaris oper­ates three lux­ury camps in North­ern Botswana: Eagle Island Camp in the Oka­vango Delta, Savute Ele­phant Camp in the Chobe Desert, and Khwai River Lodge adja­cent to the Moremi Game Reserve. Now, in addi­tion to offer­ing tra­di­tional safari expe­ri­ences, Orient-Express is also offer­ing the chance to be guided by ani­mal com­mu­ni­ca­tor Anna Breyten­bach,…

  • News From Sanctuary Chichele Presidential Lodge-Zambia

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    On April 13, His Excel­lency Dr. Ken­neth Kaunda vis­ited Sanc­tu­ary Chichele Pres­i­den­tial Lodge to offi­cially re-open the prop­erty after an exten­sive refur­bish­ment. The lodge was orig­i­nally built in the 1970s for Dr. Kaunda, the first Repub­li­can pres­i­dent of Zam­bia, as his pri­vate retreat in the South Luangwa National Park. The open­ing cer­e­mony was also attended…

  • Safari in Uganda: Bookmark It!

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    It’s not always easy to research travel options in African coun­tries like Uganda, but it just got a lot less tax­ing with the debut of Safari in Uganda. This new web­site fea­tures a data­base with more than 300 accom­mo­da­tions, 40 car rental options, and about 170 safari providers as well as travel agen­cies worldwide. You’ll…