

Looking for an adventure over New Year’s, Hannah Bronfman and her family headed to the low-key island of Bequia. The kind of place where kids can run around on the beach while parents supervise from a distance during long, toes-in-the-sand lunches, and happy hour means rum and Cokes set to a soundtrack of soca music.

We turned to our most trusted safari experts to answer your questions (and ours), from how to catch the Great Migration without the crowds to the best bush-to-beach pairings, and their picks for the top lodges and camps—whether you’re traveling with kids, a big group, chasing great food, design, birdlife, gorillas, or the most insane…

Restaurateur Brooks Reitz set off with his wife and young son on a road trip that stretched from the palm trees of LA to the apple orchards of Philo, winding through Ojai, Carmel, Inverness, and beyond.

It’s rare to find a kid craft activity that is also lovely and almost meditative for adults. And something you truly want to keep—or gift!

The twin towns of Deauville and Trouville-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast have long lured Parisians for their buzzy restaurants, Neo-Norman architecture, and sandy beaches sprinkled with candy-colored umbrellas. Maddy Odom made the easy trip from Paris for a few laid-back days of shell-scavenging and sandcastle-building, waterfront meals of fresh oysters, (plus a detour to Giverny!)…

For his daughter’s school break, Martins Pilens decided to revisit one of his favorite places through their eyes. With thrilling water taxi rides, nightcaps of gelato (for the kids) and Americanos (for the parents), and a picnic in the garden of a Palladian villa, the trip was equally fun for all.

Co-founder of The Perfect, Alexa Brazilian nails the laid-back preppy-cool look inspired by her childhood on Nantucket and honed over years as a fashion editor in New York and London.

Nanda and Max Haensel set off on a 2,500-mile loop through Southern Chile and Argentina with toddlers in tow—no screens, just crayons, picture books and the open road. Along the iconic Ruta 7, they discovered that the planet’s wildest frontiers can stir a sense of adventure and discovery, even in the smallest travelers.