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ravel magazines often provide thumbnail profiles on hotels and destinations around the world. Travel Africa is sharing some of those profiles of Africa destinations. Explore. We hope you will find some destinations that help you refine your plans for that next trip to the African continent. CAIRO, EGYPT - St. Regis Cairo Peace and calm define Cairo’s latest high-end opening, where the double-glazed windows in guest rooms silence the nonstop action outside
breakfast on a verdant stretch of the riverbank. Nicola Chilton, marriott.com, Travel and Leisure SOUTH AFRICA - Kruger Shalati Suspended high above the Sabie River, in an engineering feat that balances heritage status with sound environmental management, Druger Shalati feels like s total departure from conventional safarilodge style. The hotel is actually a repurposed train comprising 24 glass-walled rooms set on former rail tracks. Romantic touches, like maroon leather headboards and whimsical suite-numbering font, are complemented by vernacular notifs. A favorite example? Silky bathrobes commissioned from rising textile-design star Bonolo Chepape which riff on the bridge’s angular arches. I wore one during an inroom spa treatment during which I could admire hippos and elephants in the river below. I later set off on a game drive. As part of the hotel’s concession agreement, most of the guides and hospitality staff hail from communities surrounding the park. The commitment to economic impact and
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The St. Regis also offers an indoor and an outdoor pool.
on the Nile Corniche. Serenity also reigns at the reflecting pools of the hotel’s Water Garden, where you can sip mint tea or a Bloody Mary made with hibiscus-infused vodka amid design details like arabesque lanterns and decorative mashrabyhas (windows covered with laticework). When it’s time to explore the city’s extraordinary histor, fuel up on some of Cairo’s best falafel at La Zisa - one of six restaurants on property - before heading off to experience the wonders of the new Egyptian Museum, Khan el-Khalili bazaar, and the Pyramids. The hotel can also arrange a speedboat up the Nile for scenes of palm groves, farms, and fishermen, complete with a picnic
Unique touches in Kruger Shalati’s carriage rooms include flowing silky robes. Image: Sanet Oberholzer
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