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Far & Wild Press Features & Awards

Far & Wild have featured in Wanderlust Magazine, The Times, Adventure Travel Magazine, and BA High Life Magazine.

Eliza

Eliza

Marketing Manager
Published on

02 Apr 2018

Updated on

26 Jul 2024

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Far & Wild are pleased to announce that we have been selected as the winner of Safari Tour Operator of the Year for 2024/25 by Prestige Awards in North England!

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Wanderlust Magazine

Far & Wild was featured in Wanderlust Magazine across an incredible 10-page spread for our inaugural Trans-Serengeti Balloon Expedition, written up by BBC's travel guru Kate Humble in the April/May 2024 edition.

Far And Wild Jewish Chronicle Kenya

The Jewish Chronicle

We were featured in the Jewish Chronicle print and online in March 2023. Our Kenya trip included time in Nairobi, the Masai Mara and Watamu on the coast, staying at Hemmingway properties throughout.

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Saturday Times Dec 2022

Saturday Times

Far and Wild was featured in the Saturday Times Travel section in an article on walking safaris in Africa in December 2022. Our Namibia trip included hiking desert dunes, tracking black rhinos and spotting desert-adapted elephants.

Travel Africa Jan March 2022

Travel Africa Magazine

Far and Wild was featured not once, but twice in Travel Africa's Jan-March 2022 edition. Firstly to celebrate our world-first carbon scoring initiative which enables our clients to make more sustainable travel choices, and secondly to share our expertise on Rwanda as a complete destination, not just somewhere to see the gorillas.

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The Flipflopi

The Sunday Telegraph

Our trip to Lamu in Kenya was the Sunday Telegraphs top choice for an adventure holiday in the Indian Ocean. As well as snorkelling and fishing, the trip includes sailing the Flipflopi - the world's first sailing boat made from recycled beach plastic. The piece also ran in Yahoo! news which be found here.

Read here.

Suitcase Magazine Ethiopia Press

Suitcase Magazine

We love this beautiful three page spread that Suitcase Magazine did on Kate Eshelby's trip to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. Kate took the photos herself whilst on this holiday we organised for her and her family.

Read here.

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The Telegraph

Ride4Rangers took place in August 2020 to raise money for Tusk with the aim to keep African rangers in their jobs and protecting endangered wildlife. The project was the brainchild of our founder Ben Morision and saw the African travel community including all of the Far and Wild team, come together to collective raise funds.

Read here.

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The Saturday Times

We arranged for Kate Eshelby and her family to go in search of one of the rarest animals on earth, the Ethiopian Wolf in the Bale National Park, Ethiopia. Her wonderful feature appeared in the Saturday Times Travel section in 2020.

Read the article.

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Stanley Johnson visited Tomé & Principe

Spear's Magazine

We sent Stanley Johnson to explore the heavenly destinations of São Tomé & Principe in 2019 and his wonderful article featured in August's edition of Spear's Magazine.

Read here.

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The Travel Magazine January 2019 - Photographic Masai Mara Safari

The Travel Magazine

Our specialist photographic safari in the Masai Mara featured in The Travel Magazine in January 2019, a great week dedicated to capturing that perfect shot under the expert guidance of a renowned wildlife photographer.

Read the full article here.


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Travel Africa Magazine January 2019 - FlipFlopi to set sail!

Travel Africa Magazine

The Plastic Revolution Sets Sail! In the January 2019 Travel Africa Magazine there's a great mention of one of Ben's other great projects. FlipFlopi is a dhow made entirely of recycled plastic.

Read about the first planned sailing here.


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The Travel Magazine December 2018 - we recommend Sao Tome & Principe

The Travel Magazine

The Travel Magazine asked us for our top recommendation for places to visit in 2019, and we chose the remote islands of Sao Tome & Principe, with their deserted beaches, Jurassic landscapes and unique wildlife.

See the full article here.

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British Airways High Life Magazine - Featuring Historical Ethiopia.

Highlife British Airways

Another great mention in BA High Life magazine's November 2018 edition. This month they featured our Historical Ethiopia itinerary.

A quote from the article - "Far & Wild Travel's new guided historical route through Ethiopia is nothing less than awe-inspiring."

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The Adventure Travel Magazine featuring Wildlife on the Roof of Africa

Adventure Travel Magazine

The Adventure Travel Magazine got in touch with us about another of your Ethiopian tours. They wanted to feature our Wildlife on the Roof of Africa holiday.

The Adventure Travel Magazine loved the fact that we venture deep into Ethiopia on this itinerary, and go high into the Simien Mountains to add a sense of adventure to the tour.

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British Airways High Life November 2018. Featuring the great Bruno Hansen

Highlife British Airways

The November BA High Life magazine focused on the great achievements of Bruno Hansen. We teamed up with British Airways to help organise travel for Bruno and his team to Durban to take part in the Adaptive Surfing Championships.

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Far & Wild Travel feature in The Daily Mail Inspired Escapes for 2019

Daily Mail

In October The Daily Mail asked us if they could feature our Uganda & Rwanda "Game & Gorillas" as the best of their alternative destinations, within their inspired escapes for 2019 feature.

The Daily Mail loved the fact that we don't just do the traditional safari destinations, and that everything is tailor made, and made for each customer.

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Daily Mail article featured in August 2018
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The Times March 2018. Featured one of our Uganda and Rwanda safaris.

The Times

Far & Wild Travel's first mention in a national newspaper was in The Times. They wanted to feature a great Uganda and Rwanda gorilla holiday. In fact this one.

The Times loved the thought that went into the itinerary and have featured it on their own travel website. A great partnership which we hope will blossom in the months to come.

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British Airways High Life Magazine, February 2018.

Far & Wild's first ever association with BA High Life Magazine happened within a month of Far & Wild Travel being created. There's a great article that showcases what Ben (Our director) get's up to in his spare time.

Read the full article here.

If you want to read an article on the progress of the Flipflopi project click here.


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