From Cape Town to the White Desert and back, in 24 hours.

Spectacularly situated on the Mossman River, a stay at Silky Oaks Lodge is one of the best ways to experience Australia’s tropical northland.

With wellness and healing arts practices that inspire “The simplicity of self,” Shou Sugi Ban House, in the Hamptons, is a unique gated thirteen-studio spa and wellness retreat.

In a national park on the Alaska Peninsula that’s home to more than 2,000 brown bears (more than there are humans), Alaskan brown bear and grizzly viewing is the carbon neutral, name of the game.

Destroyed in the bushfires earlier this year, owners, James and Hayley Baillie, immediately committed to rebuilding the Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island.

A sister for its much-loved namesake on Nantucket, the White Elephant Palm Beach is a lovely reincarnation of the famous Bradley Park Hotel from the 1920s.

We are all travel-dreaming and more than ready for stimulating, safe adventures to go these days so our HF editors went almost to the end of the earth to find a special place that might just fit the bill.

A return to glory that’s authentic and low key, and full of fun.

Deep in the rich woodlands on a remote lakeshore, Lake Kora remains one of the intact grand camps still in use today.