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Safari lodges, riads and Cape Town style.
12 hotels profiled in Africa
Kruger National Park, South Africa
Glass-and-steel suites suspended above the N'wanetsi River in a private Kruger concession, pairing avant-garde design with superb game viewing.
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Nairobi, Kenya
The 1930s ivy-clad manor in Nairobi's Langata suburb where endangered Rothschild's giraffes join guests for breakfast through the windows.
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Aswan, Egypt
The 1899 Victorian palace on Aswan's granite bluffs where Agatha Christie's Nile lore was born, its terrace facing Elephantine Island at sunset.
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Cape Town, South Africa
A 1920s grain silo reborn above the Zeitz MOCAA museum, its pillowed glass windows framing Table Mountain and the V&A Waterfront.
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Cairo, Egypt
The 19th-century hunting lodge turned legendary hotel at the foot of the Giza plateau, where the Great Pyramid fills the view from breakfast.
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Marrakech, Morocco
Marrakech's legendary 1923 palace hotel, wrapped in centuries-old royal gardens, Art Deco-Moorish interiors and Churchill-era glamour.
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Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town's blush-pink grande dame of 1899, set in nine acres of gardens beneath Table Mountain and famous for its extravagant afternoon tea.
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Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
The Edwardian 'grand old lady of the Falls', built in 1904 with lawns aligned on the spray of Victoria Falls and its century-old railway bridge.
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Luxor, Egypt
The 1907 Nile-front grande dame of Egyptology, where news of Tutankhamun's tomb first electrified the world.
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Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi's original hotel, opened in 1904, whose Lord Delamere Terrace has watched over Kenyan history for more than a century.
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Maputo, Mozambique
Maputo's 1922 clifftop grande dame above the Indian Ocean, its white neoclassical wings and gardens restored to Serena polish.
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Alexandria, Egypt
Alexandria's literary landmark of 1929 on the sweep of the Corniche, immortalised in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.
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