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Four great African adventures

Dream expeditions from Uganda to Madagascar

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Go (ultra) private at Grumeti

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The bathroom of Singita Kilima’s main suite
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Singita Kilima, Tanzania

Price: from $27,300 a night sleeping 10

Click: singita.com

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A day bed by the swimming pool at Singita Kilima

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A view across the plain from the sala

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The house and pool seen from above
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The Middle East’s new frontier

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Luxury tents at Socotra Island Expeditions
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Socotra Island Expeditions, Yemen

Price: from $8,500pp per week all-inclusive (bar diving excursions)

Click: socotraislandexpeditions.com

"}],[{"start":69.28000000000002,"text":"If the Arabian Peninsula’s remote reaches figure in your travel fantasies, Sean Nelson is your man. "},{"start":75.02200000000002,"text":"The ex-Royal Navy officer – who also served in the Oman Desert Regiment – has been leading the adventurous around Yemen, Abu Dhabi’s Empty Quarter and Oman’s most off-piste deserts and mountains since 2006. "},{"start":86.43900000000002,"text":"His newest outfit, Socotra Island Expeditions, is now officially up and running. "},{"start":91.55700000000002,"text":"Its mobile camps – pop-up canvas, soft cotton towels and accompanying chef – allow for fluid exploration of Socotra’s extraordinary biodiversity; around 37 per cent of flora and a whopping 90 per cent of its reptiles are unique to the area which, while administratively controlled by Yemen, is actually geographically part of the African continent. "}],[{"start":null,"text":"
Camel trekking in the Hajhir Mountains, Socotra
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A camp pitched at Errisel, Socotra’s westernmost point
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Nature meets nurture on Madagascar

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Tsara Komba, Madagascar
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Tsara Komba, Nosy Be archipelago

Price: from $403pp sharing

Click: tsarakomba.com

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Macaco lemurs

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The terrace of a suite at Tsara Komba

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Central Africa’s other great ape epicentre

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Bachwezi Arch in a deluxe bathroom at Kibale Lodge
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Volcanoes Safaris Kibale Lodge, Uganda

Price: from $990pp; 10-day primate safari, from $12,650pp  

Click: volcanoessafaris.com

"}],[{"start":197.88,"text":"Rwanda seems to have upstaged Uganda as the destination for great-ape expeditions. "},{"start":202.822,"text":"Which is strange, given that in Uganda’s Kibale National Park 13 species of ape, at least two endangered, can be found, including 1,500 chimpanzees. "},{"start":212.702,"text":"Mountain gorillas range in large numbers; Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to the south is home to around 460, almost half the world’s total wild population. "},{"start":221.394,"text":"Kibale Lodge, run by Volcanoes Safaris, opened here last summer – a high-style proposition whose eight enormous bandas have put some of Rwanda’s swankier lodges on notice (as will A&K’s revamped Sanctuary Gorilla Forest Lodge when it opens this spring in the Bwindi). "}],[{"start":null,"text":"
A view of Lake Rugyembe
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A deluxe bedroom at Kibale Lodge
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