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Is this the most luxe safari lodge in the world?
As soon as I arrived at Hiddn, however, I appeared to have something of a personality crisis; as much as I wanted to find fault with it, I couldn’t. Everything about it seemed perfect. This was surprising, as the journey had been long: Heathrow to Cape Town, a flight from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and then a 90-minute car ride up into the bush, much of it on a dirt track (we were being ferried in a brand spanking new Defender). The scenery was lush and green and extraordinary, and after 40 minutes or so, all we could see were trees and animals — zebra, buffalo, warthog, kudu and bushbuck. And when we finally arrived, at the very top of a mountain, we were presented with the sight of a lodge which looked like an international space station, surrounded by a dozen villas of such opulence that I thought the whole place was an AI-imagined outpost of Aman.