Stanley Stewart, Monisha Rajesh, William Dalrymple and many more share their personal discoveries — and disappointments — of the past year
The property lies at the end of a twisting sand track in the wild hill country of Salta Province, the remote outback of north-west Argentina. For a time, I seemed to be travelling further and further from anywhere, until suddenly there was an avenue of trees, an archway, a complex of gracious almond-coloured buildings set around a courtyard. My room looked towards the Andes, framed by vineyards and gardens of lavender.
These animals are endangered, yet safari vehicles with driver-guides barely paused before they moved on. Is this the zoo-ification of safari? When the rarest of creatures become no more than a passing sideshow? National parks should be open to all, but what is the solution when tourism can also diminish the very thing a park is meant to conserve? I left Chobe with a sinking feeling, that it was somehow missing its wild soul.
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