Cox & Kings in the News
Elite Traveler Magazine Cover Story: Maddox Business Report Food & Wine Magazine
Extreme Scene—Primate Party
"Nothing is as humbling as a 450-pound gorilla staring into your eyes and beating its chest. Newly opened Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge is the first true luxury lodge in Africa that offers gorilla viewing...
Tour operator Cox & Kings offers access to the lodge as an extension of its comprehensive private safari package."
Elite Traveler, Jan./Feb. 2009
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Elite Traveler Magazine Feature Story:
14 Days in Southern Africa—To the Okavango Delta
"Keep cameras ready as the creeks in the plains below slowly widen into the immensity Botswana's Okavango Delta. Foraging elephants, yawning hippos and swaggering giraffes make their home in the lily-filled waters.
Safari firm Cox & Kings has arranged your stay at Selinda Reserve and Zibadianja, the reserve's new four-tent luxury eco-lodge..."
Elite Traveler, Nov./Dec. 2008
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Town & Country Traveler's Notebook:
Cox & Kings & Charitable Things
"Nathaniel Waring, president of Cox & Kings USA, a private tour outfitter that caters to affluent travelers, has been helping a number of clients reach out to impoverished communities during their travels to Asia, Africa, India and Latin America. Here, he explains how."
Town & Country, May 2008
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ForbesLife, Feature Story:
Laos, Asian Beauty
Given Laos' still-developing tourism infrastructure, it's best to let a travel company with experience in the region organize a trip. Cox and Kings has a comprehensive network of resources and guides in the country and can organize trips of any length, either concentrating on Laos or as an add-on to a Southeast Asian itinerary."
ForbesLife, Oct. 2007
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Elite Traveler Magazine Cover Story:
Wanderluxe Great White Shark Cage Diving, Gansbaai, South Africa
"Cox and Kings USA are experts on arranging elite African visits..."
Gorilla Trekking, Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
"Again, turn to Cox and Kings for expert organization of your African adventure."
Although you may not choose your group, guides from Cox and Kings' Primate Safaris (who have escorted Sigourney Weaver, Don Cheadle and Barry Diller) know which group could have the best viewing that day and have the pull to get you assigned to it. Try to see the Sabyino group-it has the largest silverback, "Guhonda," and youngest baby at the moment.
Elite Traveler Magazine, May/June 2006
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Elite Traveler Magazine Cover Story: Private Islands:
"Island Pros:
For bookings in the Indian Ocean, it's best to go to travel specialists Cox and Kings USA who know the properties well, can easily secure the best villa and make the often complex transfers a breeze.".
Elite Traveler Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2006
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"Safari Pros
Pulling together an African itinerary involves chartering planes (many lodges, especially in Botswana, are reachable only with light aircraft) and juggling availability at small lodges. Also, lodges are very individual and need to be matched with specific tastes. It's best to consult an expert to put together the pieces for you. One luxury tour operator with great experience in Africa who is familiar with all the lodges featured here is Cox & Kings"
Elite Traveler Magazine, Mar./Apr. 2005
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"Nathaniel Waring has access that is phenomenal," says client Molly Shannon, who initially traveled with Cox & Kings USA to South Africa and later to Peru. "My first trip to South Africa was beyond expectation, "she says." The guides we had were fantastic. We visited a village in Zambia and spent time with the school children. We were able to interact with them and realize how open, fun-loving and optimistic they are."
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"Our outfitter was Cox & Kings, a tour operator that recently started offering luxury treks (complete with masseurs) along the Ancascocha Trail. For the five members in our trekking party, Cox & Kings supplied a 17-man crew of cooks, guides and porters, who carried bags, kitchen supplies and tents on horseback and rode ahead to set up camp."
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"India
Nicole Beattie, Cox & Kings
Cox & Kings has been the India expert longer than anyone else, and Beattie has visited the country more than 50 times in the past 27 years."
Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, Aug., 2003
World's Top Travel Specialists Award
"Middle East—Multicountry Itineraries
Nicole Beattie, Cox & Kings
Beattie has the scoop on what's worth doing throughout the Middle East, and she knows hotels with character that many tour companies ignore."
Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, Aug., 2003
World's Top Travel Specialists Award
"Speaking of the rough and the smooth, I am perfectly capable of getting myself roughly around Africa as I have been doing for forty years, but when I looked for the smooth, for luxurious travel in South Africa I made my arrangements through Cox & Kings and never in forty years have I been so well treated or my time so perfectly apportioned, none of it wasted, all of it bliss."
Paul Theroux, 2001
Author of The Great Railway Bazaar
and The Mosquito Coast
"Few operators in the United States offer trips to Iran. Cox & Kings has a 17-Day itinerary with a variety of configuration."
Travel Magazine, April 2003
"I entrusted my arrangements, down to tiniest detail, to Cox & Kings, a travel firm that's done this sort of thing for the past 240 years. Wouldn't go without them."
John Peterman, J. Peterman Catalogue
"For more palatial (literally) digs, Cox & Kings, a high-end specialist in the subcontinent, operates a luxurious expedition through Rajasthan, a desert province rich in history. Featured are stays at various five-star forts, palaces, and opulent tented camps."
Diversion, October 1999
"This venerable company will customize your visit to India and smooth all the bumps.They did a great job for me; put yourself in their hands."
Anthony Dias Blue, WCBS
"We booked our trip through Cox & Kings, the oldest high-end tour operator in the world. We'd sent the photographer Mary Ellen Mark to India on assignment a few years earlier and she insisted, for good reason, on working with Cox & Kings because of their expertise and experience-and she was right on both counts."
Pamela Fiori, Town & Country Magazine
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