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First to Go: Côte D’Azur Cuisine

This week, our local correspondent shares some of the latest culinary news from the South of France, including a great new restaurant from the Hotel L’Imperiale Garoupe Florentine-style Palazzo, run by Gilbert Irondelle (son of the renowned and now-retired director of the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Jean-Claude Irondelle).

This Month’s Dream: Elephant Safari at Abu Camp, Botswana

It is for this kind of monumental, life-enhancing experience that we travel. One of the legendary bush camps of Africa offers a chance to sit atop the world’s largest mammals. Read the latest on Abu Camp.

In the Know: Milan’s Makeover

Attracting even more people than Milan’s glamorous fall and spring fashion shows, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (International Furniture Fair), which opens today and runs until the 21st, is arguably the world’s most important design fair. Read more in our Milan destination report.

Indagare in Action: Exotic Itineraries

For summer and holiday vacations, we’ve been working with members on adventurous itineraries in Africa and South America. Combining Rio or Buenos Aires with the beach or adventures in the Amazon or Patagonia, in December can be tricky. But there are new hideaways, including one in Uruguay’s best beach town, Jose Ignacio.

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Destination reports on Tokyo and Budapest.

Plus: Member postcards on hiking the Great Wall, riding the Rovos Rail, dining in Tokyo and on St. Lucia. Plus their tips from family trips in Paris, New York, Costa Rica and Disney World. Discussions on Burma, Brazil and San Miguel Allende and a Q&A with M.A. Sanjayan, a lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy who gets to go the world’s most unspoiled places and sometimes brings others along for trips that you can’t put a price on. Yesterday he began a two-week camel trek across the Namib Desert to the Skeleton Coast. He and the small group with him will cross the very last “intact” desert (one that remains as pristine as it was 200 years ago) and they’ll be the last travelers to do so, as the area will soon be encompassed into a new national park. Before Sanjayan left, I met with him in New York and found out how to join his journeys and got his list of standout spots for beaches and wildlife. Hint: Consider the Coral Sea, Panama, Sri Lanka and Sierra Leone.

Coming soon

Reports on Capri, the Amalfi Coast, Barbados and Iceland. Plus: What’s new in New York.