
Kuzuma Botswana defers, quite rightly, to its heavyweight guests.
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IN 1975 THE CONSTANCE GROUP, local sugar cane industry players since 1920, diversified into tourism. Good call. Their change of focus was a brilliant investment in an island that attracts over a million tourists a year. The group’s strong regional heritage means that the hospitality of the islanders is a common thread in the portfolio of luxury hotels not only in Mauritius but in the Maldives, Seychelles and Madagascar too. All the Constance Hotels and Resorts properties are winners of a growing list of prestigious international awards for luxury hotels.

Mauritius has elegantly maintained its reputation as an idyllic Indian Ocean tourist magnet while reinventing itself as an African powerhouse.

PLUG IN THESE COORDINATES: S24.09.19 E028.24.06. Or follow directions that take you north, far from people, light and noise. route markers include making note of ‘Mpatamacha game pens’, green signs and caution over gravel, security points and forks in the road. It’s an adventure just getting there. ‘There’ is the Waterberg and a remarkable property: the Leobo Private Reserve.

What is it about Tahiti that bewitches writers, travellers, artists and sailors? A cruise on the small luxury ship named Paul Gauguin reveals all.