2 Pitch up in distant Saharan Sands
The Sahara sprawls across more than three million square miles - you couldn’t see all of them in a weekend, of course, but you can get a taste at Erg Chigaga (pictured above) - a sand dune system on the northwestern cusp of the desert in Morocco, a universe away from the clamour of Marrakesh (and, come to think of it, the rest of the wider world). Deep in the dunes is the Erg Chigaga luxury desert camp: a cluster of Berber tents in total solitude. You might choose to escape the midday heat in palatial pitches with Moorish furnishings, spending balmy evenings camel riding in search of oases, or nights by the campfire under starlit skies, listening to the winds in the sand.