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Cheval Blanc Randheli Is LVMH's Maldives Answer to French Luxury, Five Islands at a Time

On a private cluster of islands in the Maldives' Noonu Atoll, LVMH's Cheval Blanc Randheli pairs architect Jean-Michel Gathy's design with in-house names like Guerlain and Dior, landing somewhere between a resort and a French maison.

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Jack's Camp Turned an Ancient Botswana Salt Pan Into One of Africa's Most Distinctive Safari Camps

On Ntwetwe Pan in the Kalahari, Jack's Camp pairs a long-running meerkat habituation project and San-led bushcraft walks with quad-bike excursions across one of the flattest, emptiest landscapes on Earth.

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COMO Laucala Turned a Red Bull Billionaire's Private Fiji Island Into an Ultra-Quiet Retreat

Off Fiji's Taveuni coast, a five-kilometre private island once owned by publishing heir Malcolm Forbes and later Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz has been run since 2022 by COMO Hotels, pairing 25 villas with a working organic farm and one of the South Pacific's only private submarines.

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Segera: The Laikipia Retreat Built Around Rhinos, Reforestation and a Founder's Art Collection

On a 200-square-kilometre conservancy in Kenya's Laikipia plateau, Segera pairs a small luxury retreat with an active rhino-reintroduction and reforestation programme, run by the same foundation that owns the land.

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Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp Puts Desert-Adapted Elephants Outside a Tent With No Fourth Wall

A small camp on a gravel plain in north-west Namibia puts guests within sight of desert-adapted elephants and, occasionally, desert lion, in one of the driest, least populated corners of southern Africa.

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Eleven's Deplar Farm Turned a Sheep Farm on Iceland's Tröll Peninsula Into a Heli-Skiing Base

On the remote Tröllaskagi peninsula in northern Iceland, a former sheep farm has been rebuilt into a 13-room adventure lodge built around heli-skiing in winter and the midnight sun in summer, rather than a beach or a spa on its own.

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Limalimo Lodge Puts Ethiopia's Simien Mountains Escarpment Right Outside the Window

A cliff-edge lodge built from local stone above one of Africa's most dramatic escarpments gives travellers heading into Ethiopia's Simien Mountains National Park a comfortable base within sight of Gelada baboon troops and some of the country's highest peaks.

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Soneva Fushi Built the Barefoot Luxury Blueprint the Maldives Still Follows

On a jungle-covered island in the Baa Atoll UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Soneva Fushi helped invent the barefoot-luxury look that much of the Maldives resort industry has since borrowed, built around an observatory, an underground wine cellar and a standing no-shoes policy.

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Inkaterra's Sacred Valley Lodge Puts You Closer to the Incas Than Cusco Ever Could

In Peru's Sacred Valley, a 36-room hacienda-style lodge built around an organic farm and Andean design offers a lower-altitude, unhurried alternative to basing a Machu Picchu trip in Cusco.

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Sumba Is the Indonesian Island That Skipped the Bali Playbook Entirely

East of Bali and Lombok, Sumba has built its small luxury-stay scene around empty surf beaches and Sumbanese village culture rather than nightlife, and a handful of remote resorts have made that isolation the point.

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Rambagh Palace Turns Jaipur's Former Royal Residence Into the City's Grandest Stay

Once the residence of Jaipur's royal family and later the Maharaja's private palace, Rambagh Palace now operates as a hotel set in formal Mughal-style gardens on the edge of the old Pink City.

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Tswalu Kalahari Is South Africa's Largest Private Reserve, Built Around Meerkats and Desert-Black Rhino Rather Than the Big Five Checklist

Tswalu, the Oppenheimer family's reserve in South Africa's Northern Cape, trades dense Big Five game-drive circuits for open Kalahari plains, habituated meerkat colonies and a long-running desert conservation research programme.