Business travel gets a female touch
As more women join the global workforce, new services geared specifically towards female business travellers are popping up, from cab services to female-only hotel floors. According to a January 2012...
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Mini guide to coastal Mauritius
Mauritius’ long stretches of sandy beach have long made it a hit with honeymooners. (BBC) Sapphire waters and powder-white beaches have made it a hit with honeymooners, but Mauritius is much more than...
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Derawan Island and the Sangalaki Archipelago
The desert islands of the Sangalaki Archipelago lie off the east coast of Borneo. (Richard Waters) With a new international terminal at Kalimantan’s Berau airport in Indonesian Borneo opening in April...
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10 Great Observation Decks Around the World
There’s no better way to experience a location than to peer down upon the landscape from a great height. From the world’s tallest man-made structure to a walkout platform shadowing the Grand Canyon,...
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Panoramic Tokyo Day Tour – Meiji Shrine, Asakusa Temple and Tokyo Bay Cruise
In a city as large and diverse as Tokyo, I knew I’d be overwhelmed without a city tour to help me get my bearings. I needed a bit of a layout of the city, more than the maps could provide me, and I...
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Top Things to Do in Kyoto: A 5-Day Itinerary
Maiko (apprentice geisha) Arriving at my ryokan in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, a commotion of tourists near the hotel entrance erupted as maiko (apprentice geisha) stopped in front of a...
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Cultural Wonders of Chiang Mai
Founded more than 700 years ago, Thailand’s northern capital of Chiang Mai grew through history in relative isolation before a railway system was built in the 1920s. These days, Chiang Mai is a hop and...
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High heels and crampons
In the clouds … a temple at the summit of Emei Shan. Photo: Getty Images Emily Shanahan is blown off her feet on a trek to the summit of Emei Shan. ‘You have high heels?” asks the little Chinese woman...
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A passage to deepest India
River life … on the banks of the Brahmaputra. Photo: AP Steering a ship down one of the world’s great rivers isn’t all plain sailing, as Tim Pozzi discovers. Gazing from the bridge of the RV...
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Land of milk and sugar
In good taste … Hindusthan Sweets in the Jadavpur district. Photo: Adam Plowright Natacha Butler samples the soul food of Kolkata and takes away sweet memories of a centuries-old tradition. There’s...
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Dressed up, somewhere to go
In character … the Gilmour family make like millionaires in Corfu. IT WAS halfway over the Laxman Jhula suspension bridge in Rishikesh that my wife Kass and I felt, for the first time, like tourist...
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24 hours in Mumbai
Tiffin time … a Bollywood poster dwarfs pedestrians. Photo: Reuters Alongside dabbawallahs and slumdogs, Louise Southerden plunges into the human tide of India’s largest city. Mumbai is like New York....
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Destination discovery
National Museum of Emerging Science Tokyo. Photo: Alamy Brian Johnston seeks out the top 10 overseas science museums, guaranteed to fire the imagination. The best of travel is surely delighting in the...
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Now you’re talking: five-star and frugal
Vibrant … Beijing’s Dongcheng district. Photo: Getty Images If sipping champagne while jetting at the pointy end of the plane is an unrequited goal, pack your bags while the Australian dollar remains...
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Bright lights, old city
Photo: AFP A traveller to Shanghai since the 1970s, banker and company director Nicholas Whitlam finds its antique treasures still shine amid the 21st century growth. Shanghai’s renaissance has pushed...
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24 hours in Beijing
The Forbidden City takes all day, so head to the vast Tiananmen Square instead if you’re pressed for time. Photo: John Donegan Leisa Tyler explores a post-Olympic city in the midst of another cultural...
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The 20 best short-haul hotels
Lu Ciaccaru, a converted farmhouse in Sardinia 1. St Moritz Hotel, near Rock, Cornwall Following a modest £15m makeover in 2008, this is now one of Cornwall’s chicest boltholes. Each of the 48...
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Yosemite is Open but A Few Things Travelers Must Know
Yes, Yosemite National Park is open, or most of it is – despite a raging wildfire that officials say is roughly the size of Chicago. And growing. Listen to travel expert Rick Seaney on wildfire...
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10 top ski resorts
Best for food … Courmayeur, Italy. Photograph: Alamy Best for something different – Gulmarg, Kashmir, India In years past, a ski trip to India’s Kashmir province would have had “niche” written all...
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EssentialsThe Russians are here
Location location … rumour has it that Abramovich likes Courchevel so much that he tried to buy the whole resort. Photograph: Peter Turnley/Corbis They’re really not very friendly these Russian...
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