How to Take a Destination Trip

Calling all multi-tasking travelers: We’ve got the trips for you. Yes, you can combine South Africa with Antarctica; visit seven Caribbean islands in as many days; combine three safaris in one; fly around four spectacular and hard-to-reach Scottish golf courses in four days; and do both the Chilean and Argentinian sides of Patagonia. Happy bucket-listing.

Africa—and Antarctica
(in 1 Day)

No kidding. First, spend five to seven days exploring South Africa’s Garden Route, a 190-mile stretch of shoreline with magnificent Indian Ocean beaches and the marine big five: great white sharks, seals, penguins, dolphins, and whales. November to February is summer here, and Birkenhead House (from the Royal Portfolio Collection) is an elegant base in Hermanus for shark diving and seeing whales breach. Grootbos, a hotel cum nature reserve 30 minutes to the south, is known for its family-friendly marine safaris and botanical tours (and a new florilegium).

White Desert’s Antarctic glamping site.

Then it’s back to your base, Cape Town (stay at art-filled Ellerman House), from which Antarctica specialist White Desert’s “Greatest Day” tour will zip you in five hours via an Airbus A340 to its new Antarctic glamping site. You’ll have three hours to play polar explorer (with a mountain guide), toast the experience with champagne, then jet back to Cape Town for dinner….