One for the bucket list – get close to nature by day and dine under the stars at night on a luxury eco-safari in southern Africa

COUNTRY LIFE writers reveal the hotels that stood out to them in 2025

Exciting ways to get away from it all

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Rupert Uloth travels to Madagascar’s north-east to marvel at the extraordinary abundance of flora and fauna–much of which is found nowhere else on Earth

The leading conservationists tell Niall Hampton about their Sacred Nature Initiative