LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA (April 16, 2025) — Today, Travel + Leisure reveals the annual It List for 2025, spotlighting the best new luxury hotels, resorts, and cruise ships that made the biggest impression on the publication’s editors and contributors over the past year.
Now in its 20th year, Travel + Leisure’s It List continues to serve as a trusted guide to the year’s most exceptional openings. To curate the prestigious list, Travel + Leisure dispatched reporters to personally experience newly opened and recently renovated properties across the globe—from far-flung island escapes to bold, design-forward urban hotels. Based on those firsthand stays, the list was ultimately narrowed down to standout winners, recognized for their excellence in hospitality, innovation, and sense of place. One such standout? Few & Far Luvhondo—a newly opened eco-lodge redefining the safari experience with sustainability and soul.
Situated among 100,000 hectares in the wild and unexplored Soutpansberg Mountains of Limpopo, South Africa, Few & Far Luvhondo is set within UNESCO’s Vhembe Biosphere Reserve—one of the Earth’s most biologically diverse regions. Blending luxury with ecological impact, the groundbreaking sustainable safari eco-lodge features just six stunning cliffside suites, offering a deeply immersive, purpose-driven escape, designed to deliver a meaningful and bespoke travel journey for all ages. Combining regenerative tourism, biophilic design, large-scale conservation initiatives, and immersive adventures to create a profound connection between guests, nature, and local communities, Few & Far Luvhondo redefines what it means to travel with intention. With its commitment to habitat restoration, biodiversity conservation, and active carbon management, the fully solar-powered Few & Far Luvhondo sets a new benchmark for sustainable travel while delivering a transformative experience that invites families, adventurers, and nature lovers to slow down and rediscover what truly matters.
Excerpt from the article: “A carbon-neutral lodge carved into South Africa’s remote Soutpansberg mountain range, Few & Far Luvhondo is close to the country’s border with Zimbabwe. The hotel, by the founders of the U.S. glamping empire Under Canvas, has just six suites—all solar-powered and decorated with local art—plus a spa and a farm that grows produce used at Luvhondo’s restaurant (including its excellent arugula pesto). The resort’s showstopper is a solar-powered cable car—with an onboard bar. The game drives are also spectacular; my favorite moment was stalking leopards and identifying their elusive tracks in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve.”
This news comes on the heels of a banner awards season for Few & Far Luvhondo in 2025, following its recent recognition by Travel + Leisure’s 2025 Global Vision Awards, with Co-Founder Sarah Dusek honored as a Global Vision Honoree for her and Co-Founder Jake Dusek’s ongoing advocacy and impact in protecting and preserving the planet through Few & Far’s mission-driven travel model. In addition, Few & Far Luvhondo was named as one of TIME’s World’s Greatest Places of 2025, a prestigious annual list recognizing 100 extraordinary destinations around the world that offer visitors an unparalleled experience, among the 2024 Regenerative Travel Impact Awards, winning the Impact Award for Regenerative Design for its groundbreaking approach to sustainable architecture and eco-conscious hospitality. Sarah Dusek was further honored with recognition as the 2024 Change Maker of the Year, recognizing trailblazers redefining what’s possible in the realm of regenerative travel.
