Africa - The Glass Magazine

The Land of A Thousand Hills: Glass Visits Rwanda

August 4, 2025

WE TOUCH down at Kigali just as the city begins to stir to life. The nine-hour flight to Rwanda’s capital feels seamless aboard RwandAir and is well worth it for the promise of African sunshine. Outside, our d...

Glass is fascinated by Fez and Meknes

Sean Sheehan

July 14, 2025

Africa, News, Travel

CONVENTIONAL hotels go out the window when staying in the ancient city of Fes (aka Fez) in northern Morocco and once the capital of the country. The medieval part of the city, called the ‘Athens of Africa’ bec...

Glass encounters Moroccan hospitality at the Four Seasons Hotel Rabat at Kasr Al Bahr

Sophie Richardson

February 13, 2025

Africa, Travel

I’VE arrived at Four Seasons Hotel Rabat at Kasr Al Bahr, a glamorous coastal property whose name aptly translates to “Palace by the Sea”. From decadent hand-tiled floors and cedar wood balconies to plush velv...

Casa Cook el Gouna – An Egyptian desert mirage built of stone

Charlie Navin-Holder

December 24, 2024

Africa, Feature

COOL. IN a word, Casa Cook el Gouna is: cool. As in: ’Cool’, a blanket term covering all sensory interpretations, each, ultimately, justifying the other. A look, a sensation, a mood - as one. A man enters ...

Glass indulges in some winter sun at Fairmont Royal Palm Marrakech

Imogen Clark

September 2, 2024

Africa, Feature

IF you’re tired of the shorter days and gloomy winter weather, you could be basking in the North African sun in around three hours. Morocco is one of those countries that seems to have everything. And it had m...

Glass unwinds in a seaside Moroccan haven at La Sultana Oualidia

Angela Cobbinah

June 7, 2024

Africa, News, Travel

IF YOU could package Morocco in a bottle then pour it all out you would probably end up with something very like the La Sultana Oualidia. Built to resemble a casbah, all sand coloured stone, ascending terr...

Great Plains launches Wine in the Wild experiences across its Kenyan camps

Sophie Richardson

May 30, 2024

Africa, News, Travel

GREAT PLAINS, the legendary African eco-tourism company founded by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, has just announced a series of ‘wine in the wild’ experiences across its Kenyan camps. Having built a reputatio...

Glass gets wild on the Great Plains Safari in Kenya

Amanda Bernstein

January 29, 2024

Africa, Feature, Travel

IT'S A steamy afternoon. We’re parked-up in our specially adapted Great Plains Conservation Land Rover Defender. We have a 360-degree view of a pride of 14 lions, sprawled out to soak up the golden African sun...

Glass discovers a tropical paradise at The Residence Zanzibar

Amanda Bernstein

January 8, 2024

Africa, Feature, Travel

IT'S A dazzling Saturday morning. We’re sitting overlooking the Indian Ocean in the infinity pool that is as flat as glass and the focal point of the resort. I feel like a tiny figure within this body of water...

A New and Private Slow-Safari Hideaway in the Okavango Delta

Adina Ilie

September 25, 2023

Africa, News, Travel

SITATUNGA Private Island earns its name for two reasons. First, you are sure to see an acquatic antelope there, the sitatunga, that is increasingly under threat from habitat loss. They are seen from the ca...

Glass discovers Le Quartier Francais, a bijou retreat in South Africa’s Western Cape

Rachel Spencer

September 19, 2023

Africa, Feature, South Africa, Travel

ARRIVING at Franschhoek from Cape Town, the frantic city falls away, and the calm of the mountains washes over me. Nestled in the heart of the town is Le Quartier Francais, a boutique hotel located on a laid b...

Glass learns to track big cats in South Africa

David Dodge

November 23, 2022

Africa, News

ON THE SHORT drive to my accommodations at Tswalu, a private wildlife reserve in South Africa in the southern Kalahari, we pass a group of zebras, some giraffe, and two cheetahs. It’s a little unusual to see so...

Fairmont open new hotel in the heart of the Moroccan riviera, The Tazi Palace Tangier

Ben Sanderson

November 7, 2022

Africa, News, Travel

A HISTORICAL landmark has been reinvigorated with the recent opening of Fairmont’s latest residence in Morocco. Overlooking the city of Tangier in the midst of a secluded hillside, the new venture is sure to gi...

Glass goes on a luxury exploration of Egypt and the Nile Valley

Sean Sheehan

August 2, 2022

Africa, Feature, Travel

EGYPT IS full of surprises and one of the first comes with realising that the pyramids of Giza are only 20 kilometres from central Cairo. There they were, standing in front of me – looking exactly like you expe...

Wilderness Safaris welcomes guests back to its remote luxury camps in Namibia

Joshua Hendren

November 3, 2020

Africa, Feature, News, Travel

AS NAMIBIA reopens its borders to international travellers, Wilderness Safaris, Africa’s leading sustainable ecotourism operator, is welcoming guests back to its exceptional selection of remote camps. These inc...

Glass finds a paradisical hideaway in Mozambique – White Pearl Resorts

Amanda Bernstein

October 19, 2020

Africa, Feature, Travel

WHITE Pearl Resorts is the kind of destination that Robin Crusoe wished he had been shipwrecked upon. A 90-minute drive from Maputo Airport or 40 minutes from the South African Kosi Bay border, this luxury lodg...

Lifting the lid on The Oyster Box, Umhlanga, South Africa

Amanda Bernstein

September 28, 2020

Africa, Feature, Travel

AS the bell is sounded, everyone peers towards the ocean. We spot a large pod of dolphins playfully jumping in and out of the ocean as they swim past us. This ritual has been taking place every day for many yea...

Glass heads to Cape Town and finds a city that has it all

Charlie Navin-Holder

February 25, 2020

Africa, Feature, Travel

FOR those who’ve never been to Cape Town, which included myself prior to this trip, it’s difficult to pin down exactly what makes it so great. The core of the problem is that there ceases to be a unique selling...

One&Only opens second luxury resort in Rwanda

Lexi Fadina

November 18, 2019

Africa, News, Travel

RWANDA, East Africa is now the location of a brand new One&Only Gorilla’s Nest luxury resort, which opened its doors at the beginning of November. Located in Kinigi, in the foothills of the Virunga volca...

Glass stays at Bisate Lodge, Rwanda – the country’s first luxurious safari resort

Amanda Bernstein

December 24, 2018

Africa, Feature, Travel

Glass swings by a family of mountain gorillas and stays at Bisate Lodge, Rwanda’s first luxurious safari resort I WAKE at 5.00am unable to sleep in anticipation for the day ahead. I am trekking to ...

Glass comes close to nirvana in Namibia

Sean Sheehan

February 26, 2018

Africa, Culture, Feature, Travel

OPEN spaces on an epic scale, landscapes that embrace the desolate and the dramatic, an initially disconcerting lack of other people (fellow travellers and Namibians) that soon settles into a comfortable normal...