This year’s World Savers Awards from Conde Nast Traveler honors Lufthansa, Six Senses resorts, Accor hotels, tour operator Abercrombie & Kent and other travel companies from around the world for leadership in social responsibility in six key areas: education, health, poverty, preservation, wildlife and “doing it all.”
| A Thousand Words | Yikes stripes! Zebra everywhere on green safari in a massive herd in the Masai Mara, Kenya.
| Connecting Us All | Sometimes it seems everything we read and see about Africa screams conflict, famine, HIV/AIDS, disease. Little wonder, then, that so few of us travel there, beyond an all-inclusive green safari in Kenya or for the upcoming World Cup games in South Africa. But green travel is inherently about connection to [...]
| Tented Green Luxury | How can any green traveler resist this call of nature? Flying into the private airstrip for Bateleur Camp at Kichwa Tembo (head of the elephant) you reenact the famous final scene from Out of Africa by skimming over the very same glorious Kenyan plains, the zebra and giraffe and gazelle [...]
| Cottage or Tent? | The Serengeti. The name conjures up mythic Africa, images created by writers the likes of Hemingway and Robert Ruark. The Serengeti’s oceanic plains in northwestern Tanzania are home the year round to an ark of wild things, but twice annually they host the world’s largest, longest overland animal migration. The [...]
| Eco-Heroines All | Nairobi—never mind its incessant traffic congestion and generally uninspiring central business district—is pleasingly clean and leafy. Colorful beds of well-tended flora edge the roadways and parks. Signs urge reuse and recycling. Billboards promote organic milk. But when we think of the Kenyan capital’s most ardent defenders of the environment, we think [...]