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Destination Experts: Trusting Your Tour Company

Your clients are straight out of the C-Suite listings. CEOS, Wall Street wonders, they want to travel far and have called you to arrange it all for them. You cannot afford to make a mistake. Who do you call? In travel planning as in any other high stakes business, it’s important to have partners – [...]

Taking the Leap to Madagascar

If you haven’t been to Madagascar lately, time to look again. The large and lumbering island nation that broke off from the African Continent long ago has more than just lemurs. Cox & Kings offers tours of this remote outpost in the South Indian Ocean that provide a window into one of the earth’s most [...]

Holiday in Turkey: Sea Song’s Sirens’ Call

Easing through the Bosporus on a holiday in Turkey and eyeing the minarets that crown the jagged cliffs amid ruins of once thriving cities of Caesars and kings, you know you have arrived at the very root of Western civilization. The steel and glass high-rises fade into the din and almost cease to exist. All [...]

Dreaming of Trains Through Africa

By Lark Ellen Gould You don’t have to be a rail enthusiast to appreciate the fin de siècle experience to be had on a Rovos Rail ride through the savannahs of Africa. The trip will be had in lovingly restored 1920s style Pullman steam trains and the ride will be anything but ordinary. The company [...]