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  • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
    FT SeriesThe best (seriously) remote retreats
    Alone with the animals in Tanzania’s newest national park

    On land previously used for hunting, Ugalla River National Park boasts an abundance of wildlife and a landscape empty of people

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Travel
    Travel discoveries of 2021

    William Dalrymple, Sophy Roberts, Pico Iyer, Cal Flyn and many more reveal their favourite finds in the year of travel’s hesitant return

  • Saturday, 4 December, 2021
    Travel
    A villa fit for royalty . . . and the Roys

    Succession heads to Tuscany this weekend for a party in a fairytale villa — that’s available to rent

  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
    FT SeriesHow to eat and drink it this Christmas
    Our 25 favourite hotel bars

    We asked FT writers to nominate the best destinations for the perfect drink. Here are the top picks

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    Africa holidays
    In Tanzania, a Robinson-Crusoe retreat offers hospitality and hope

    Just off Zanzibar, Chumbe Island is a small but successful model of how tourism and conservation can work together

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Africa’s year of zero: a special report on the future of wildlife tourism

    The pandemic has stalled tourism across the world. But in Africa the situation is profoundly precarious. When will we be able to go back? And, crucially, what will be the right way to do so? 

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    Wish I were there...
    Wish I were there: off the beaten track in Tajikistan

    Plans to make 2020 a ‘year of tourism’ have been dashed but if visitors do return, treasures await

  • Sunday, 28 June, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Costa Rica unplugged

    An off-the-radar Costa Rican eco-lodge is like freediving into a “state of grace”

  • Saturday, 23 May, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Splendid isolation: a trip to remotest Chad

    Journeying to the spectacular desert heart of a long-troubled state

  • Thursday, 9 April, 2020
    Wish I were there...
    Wish I were there: Edmund Hillary’s ‘Happy House’ in Nepal

    Sophy Roberts on a beloved Himalayan retreat that she longs, one day, to revisit

  • Friday, 13 March, 2020
    FT SeriesPink Sand 2020: a beaches special
    Homeward bound: the joys of west Dorset

    For travel writer Sophy Roberts, the still point of her constantly turning world is a small stretch of the Jurassic Coast

  • Saturday, 7 March, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Why west Africa is trending

    Instagram has opened a cultural window to Ghana and its coastal neighbours. But it’s nothing compared to a real-life tour.

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    ReviewTravel books
    The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts — hunting for treasure

    How the quest for long forgotten instruments played out as a literary adventure in Russia’s far east

  • Friday, 31 January, 2020
    Asia and Australia holidays
    Into the unknown: could Siberia be travel’s hot new destination?

    A region long synonymous with exile and imprisonment is now attracting willing — and wealthy — visitors

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
    Asia and Australia holidays
    The unseen treasures of Uzbekistan’s silk road

    A trip guided by architects, academics, chefs and curators takes visitors beyond the beaten track

  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
    How To Spend ItWellbeing and fitness: six awesome adventures on horseback
    Rediscovering magical Andalucía on horseback

    Beloved Spanish retreat Trasierra has become the starting point for a mesmerising horseriding safari

  • Friday, 30 August, 2019
    Travel
    The Newt, Somerset: an exclusive first review

    South African billionaire Koos Bekker has spent six years turning a historic English mansion into a country house hotel

  • Friday, 14 December, 2018
    Travel
    Travel discoveries and disappointments of 2018

    From a boutique retreat in Nairobi to the streets of downtown Nuuk, FT writers pick their best destinations of the year

  • Friday, 4 May, 2018
    Life & Arts
    A ‘Survivor’-style adventure in Papua New Guinea

    Inspired by TV shows, a new trip offers the Robinson Crusoe experience to tourists

  • Friday, 16 February, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Harbin: opera and ice sculpture in China’s frozen megacity

    Obscured by the fame of its dazzling winter festival is a thrusting metropolis with a fascinating Russian past

  • Friday, 20 October, 2017
    Life & Arts
    A desert fantasy in India

    Hotel insider: an exuberant conversion of a former maharaja’s residence — far from Rajasthan’s tourist trail — delights Sophy Roberts

  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2017
    Life & Arts
    A warm welcome: the Siberian reindeer herders opening their tents to tourists

    Camping in a traditional nomad’s tepee, Sophy Roberts gets a glimpse into the lives of the Nenets

  • Friday, 13 January, 2017
    Life & Arts
    The promised sands: could Madagascar be the new Maldives?

    A much-anticipated island resort hopes to pioneer a new type of indulgent but adventurous beach break

  • Monday, 23 May, 2016
    Life & Arts
    On the trail of the Siberian tiger

    Deep in the Russian wilderness, an expert on this rare beast has opened his research base to visitors. But with only 500 left in the wild, would Sophy Roberts spot one?

  • Friday, 22 January, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Hiking, biking and kayaking in the Chilean Lake District

    Adventures for thrill-seeking families in a little-visited corner of Patagonia

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