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Taiwan’s East Coast, the California of Asia?
Taiwan, famous for dumplings, tea & quirky restaurants but on Taiwan’s east coast you’ll find a side to the country that is more like California than China.
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Fukushima 7 years later: Japan for lovers of the outdoors
Fukushima has now been safe to visit for several years, with a wide variety of experiences for adventurous, relaxed, and cultural travellers.
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Hotel review
One Night in Bangkok… or is it Shanghai?
Hidden behind a lively street front jazz bar in the heart of Bangkok’s Chinatown, is a luxurious oasis: a step back in time to 1930s Shanghai, reinvented.
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Sustainable Travel
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Sampling the simpler life on Koh Yao
Sitting on the veranda of my bamboo-thatched hut, in this quiet Thailand homestay, I can hear chickens clucking underneath the floorboards, the odd bleat from a family of goats I can see grazing their way across the lawn and the far-away sound of kids playing somewhere in the garden out of sight. There’s the slight […]
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Island hopping in the Philippines Last Wild Frontier: Palawan
In Coron, an hour’s flight from Manila in the Philippines, you are on the edge of civilisation, surrounded by rather magnificent landscape and wildlife.
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