Luxury Vacations in China

China is a gallery of icebergs as fascinating as the humpback whales who migrate here each year. Sculpted by wind and water, these skyscraper-high white monoliths fill the bays and skirt the shorelines, drifting in deep blue currents. Their colors are intense – that glittering unearthly white, the strange blues of their hollows, and the vivid greeny-blues underwater.

In Moremi Game Reserve, lions, leopards and lechwes live on islands studded with terracotta termite mounds, as awestruck travellers paddle silently past in mokoros in traditional canoes. Right across this crowd-free country, nature’s survival strategies offer extraordinary spectacles. In the Makgadikgadi Pans, a vast bed of crusted salt, thousands of zebras migrate between December and March to feast on surrounding nutrient-rich grasses, while meerkats dig for insects in the dust. And in the burning red sands of the Kalahari, communities of San people practice skills handed down by their ancestors.