Middle East & Africa

This is the region for travellers who want their hotels to come with a sense of occasion, and often a sense of wilderness too. A stay might mean a two-century-old garden wrapped in a Marrakech palace, a glass-walled suite open to a leopard-rich reserve, or a 1930s manor where an endangered herd of giraffes ambles up for the morning feed.

From the souks of the Red City to the plains of the Sabi Sand, these are the addresses that make the map feel wide open again.