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Stories, ideas and first-hand advice from the Frontier Travel team: the trips we'd book for ourselves, and the places we can't stop talking about.

A Maasai host tending the fire in a lodge lounge beneath a palm-tree mural
Featured · East Africa The East African safari I'd book my best friend If a close friend called tomorrow planning their first East African safari, this isn't the trip I'd build around a checklist. Arusha on foot, two nights in the Ngorongoro Highlands, canvas and campfires in the central Serengeti, then bold African art in the west. Read the story →

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Aerial view of Ashford Castle beside the lake, surrounded by woodland and lawns

Ireland

800 years of history, and a hawk before breakfast

There aren’t too many hotels where you drive through enormous stone gates, cross a bridge and arrive at an actual 800-year-old castle.

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Four-wheel drives crossing the white Salar de Uyuni beneath a blue sky

Bolivia

A hotel built from the salt flat

On the edge of one of the strangest landscapes on earth, Palacio de Sal is a hotel that could really only exist in Bolivia.

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Aqua Lares cruising through deep blue water

Seychelles & East Africa

From the Seychelles to East Africa

Most trips to the Seychelles barely scratch the map. This one carries you hundreds of kilometres past it, into Astove, Cosmoledo and Aldabra, where more than 100,000 giant tortoises live before crossing the Indian Ocean to Mafia Island and Zanzibar, with safari waiting on the other side.

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Hot air balloons drifting over the golden Serengeti plains at sunrise

Tanzania

Above the Serengeti

There are not many things we would enthusiastically suggest waking up before sunrise for. Ballooning over the Serengeti is one of them. An hour drifting with the wind, herds forming patterns you cannot see from a vehicle, and a full breakfast laid out on the plains when you land.

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The northern lights over a snowy fishing village in northern Norway

Norway

Northern Norway with HX Expeditions

Northern Norway in winter has a habit of making everything else feel a little overdone. HX Expeditions' Ultimate Norway voyage takes you through it on an eight-day round trip from Tromsø aboard MS Spitsbergen.

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The northern lights seen from the bed beneath a glass-roofed cabin

Finland

A glass roof over your bed in Lapland

There is something deeply appealing about a hotel room designed around the possibility that the sky might do something extraordinary while you are asleep. At Northern Lights Village Saariselkä, the bed sits directly beneath a glass roof…

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