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Seven great travel destinations for 2025

Looking for booking inspiration? These ideas include the cradle of mankind, a sanctuary in a former convent and a sausage odyssey

Villa Casbah Domes at the Al Moudira Hotel in Luxor, Egypt © Mark Anthony Fox

Journey to Kenya, and the cradle of man
A safari in the country’s far north tracks back 1.6 million years to the roots of humanity
I ate my way around Alsace – and survived
One man takes on the choucroute garnie, pretzels and pork knuckles of eastern France’s haute-calorie hinterland
Aspen, where art, aspiration and altitude collide
Still going to the Colorado mountain town for the skiing? You’re missing the main event
The elegant languor of Lamu
Finding a new calm in Kenya’s island paradise
Al Moudira, a legendary Luxor hotel, is reborn
It’s got ‘the best bones in Egypt’. Can it recapture the country’s bygone glamour?
Inside Hôtel du Couvent, a 400-year-old nunnery turned five-star sanctuary in Nice
How a hotel conversion became an act of faith

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