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by Lisa Gay (Travel)
It may be the roof of the world, but getting into Tibet (the Tibet Autonomous Region, or TAR) and traveling around isn’t easy. You’ll need a special permit just to get on the train—and if you step outside of Lhasa, yet another permit to get anywhere else ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
Some say the Chinese invented golf via an ancient game called chuiwan. That’s rubbish, of course. The Scots invented the modern game of golf, and Asia’s first modern course opened in Kobe, Japan, only in 1905. But over the last two decades, there’s no denying Asia has ... Read more »
eddie10Good coverage. How about the most adventurous courses? I recall there are a couple of rainforest encroached ones down in SEA (Orang Utan sneering at your putting skills is no ...
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
narsfweasels"The Shanghai hotel opened just behind Nanjing Xi Lu 10 years ago, but failed to make much of a splash" Unsurprising, it's not well-marketed and it's easily outstripped ...
by Amber Wu (Travel)
Nanjing is China's former seat of government and home to some of the nation's most important historical landmarks... We’re sure that that’s all very interesting, but all we really want to do sometimes is to find somewhere quiet and natural to escape from the hustle and ... Read more »
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by Dominic Ngai (Travel)
Just a few blocks north of Nanjing Lu Pedestrian Street, there is a weirdly shaped old building—390 Ningbo Lu. As you approach it, you see a giant four-story paper-thin wall. Take a closer look and see windows, air conditioners and fresh laundry hanging on this seemingly two-dimensional wall. Then ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
Thousands of islands make up the Zhoushan archipelago just off the coast of Ningbo—ranging from Zhoushan proper at 500 sq. kilometers to elbows of grey granite jutting up out of the slate green sea. Traditionally it played home to pirates, fishermen, Buddhist recluses and Daoist weirdos. And while Putuoshan ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
by Sienna Parulis-Cook (Travel)
Getting to spend the night at a dinosaur museum sounds too cool to be true, but you can really do it at the Yizhou Fossil Museum in Liaoning Province. The area around Yizhou is a treasure trove of dinosaur bones and other fossils. It was around here where Sinosauropteryx, the ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
There are plenty of quaint water towns not far from Shanghai, ranging from the ramshackle (Xinchang) to the kitschy (Zhujiajiao). None are better than Wuzhen, though. A hundred kilometers southwest of Shanghai, Wuzhen has done an admirable job balancing preservation with commercialism. Few expats leave there disappointed.
Wuzhen is neither ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
This wonderful seaside city in southern California just made the New York Times’ list of the top 45 places in the world to visit in 2012. Their reason was San Diego’s booming microbrew scene, but as far as we’re concerned, Balboa Park, Coronado Island and 70 miles of ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
On a hill overlooking Hangzhou’s West Lake, on the site of an ancient temple dedicated to the Chinese god of medicine, is China’s first genuine Ayurvedic spa, the Avaida Therapy Lounge. Check in for three days, put yourself in the care of the resident doctors and emerge restored ... Read more »
- narsfweaselsThis is a place to stay as well? It would be nice to have a complete holistic treatment and therefore not worry about getting taxis.
leemackUnfortunately there is none. The closest thing is the website for YogaSummit which is run by the same people on the same mountain. http://www.yogasummit.com.cn/en/hangzhou/
ken0171do you have a website link ? thks br
by Sienna Parulis-Cook (Travel)
When it comes to winter sports in China, Yabuli has long been considered the best. But with the recent opening of a third ski resort, Zhangjiakou has emerged as a serious competitor. There are no good places around Shanghai, so skiers and snowboarders, check it out next time you’re ... Read more »
by Jill Petzinger (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
froschkoenigKommune Great Wall by Kempinski?!
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
Volunteer holidays are a tough sell. Holidays are supposed to be about fun and relaxation—a break from reality if you will. Volunteer holidays, on the other hand, serve up reality in spades and often at greater cost. A holiday spent making the world a better place, however, is a ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The hotel industry in China is absolutely exploding right now. Starwood and IHG are both poised to nearly double their number of hotels in the next 18 months. That's a lot of hotels! But are any of them any good? Do they stack up to the best of the ... Read more »
- leemackhaha, that's most definitely on the list already. anybody rate the Upper House in HK better than the Opposite House?
clairebaredThe Opposite House Hotel in Beijing. Hook me up Lee!!!
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The year is 2012—time to get working on that end-of-the-world bucket list. Dog sledding in Mongolia is a good place to start.
Mongolia in winter is a massive deep freeze―probably the closest you will ever get to Antarctica. Nighttime temps dip down to -40 degrees Celsius. It’s ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
Train travel is one of the defining Asia experiences, and often not in a good way. Toilets of horror, bunkmates who snore, the incredible mafan of organizing the next leg—all are part of the fun. But on these luxury trains, the journey is a destination you’ll remember forever ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
It's the time of year for awards and one of the most highly anticipated set of awards is Conde Nast Traveler's Gold List. A place on the list means prestige and publicity for recipients. In other words, it's a big deal. Last year we reported on The ... Read more »
by Lee Mack (Travel)
The top destination these days for China’s monied elite is the Maldives, the archipelago in the Indian Ocean that is sinking at a rate of about a centimeter a year. It’s a strange kind of paradise, split between an impoverished capital (Male) and a string of ridiculously expensive ... Read more »
by Elliot Bernstein (Travel)
“Visit Bangladesh before tourists come!” reads a poster produced by the National Tourism Organization of Bangladesh. It’s no exaggeration. Few foreigners visit Bangladesh, and few of them are tourists. If you want luxury accommodations and well-worn tourist routes, go elsewhere, but if you’re an adventurous traveler who doesn ... Read more »
