Asia | Art | Culture & Travel

The Arts Lounge (Siem Reap, Cambodia)

Dennis — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:51:27 +0000

Overlooking the urban streetscape or courtyard garden, The Arts Lounge offers a living space at the heart of the hotel. showcases a variety of modern and traditional Cambodian art forms which are presented in an interactive and thought-stimulating manner. A dining menu is available or just enjoy a drink by the bar. Afternoon tea with [...]

Only Private Pool Villa Resort In China. Banyan Tree Sanya Resort and Spa (Hainan, China)

Dennis — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:00:00 +0000

The first to feature pool villas only. Each of the 49 villas has its own private garden, swimming pool and outdoor terrace table and seating. Inside, you’ll find a king-sized bed, plasma TV, separate living room and wireless Internet connection throughout.

Secrets of Central Asia

Dennis — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:19:57 +0000

Under bright blue domes, pilgrims draw close to the tombs of saints to pray. Voices in tangled alleyways reveal a bewildering patchwork of languages and cultures: Tajik, Uzbek, Dari, Farsi, even Russian. Close by, traders barter their wares in bazaars, haggling over everything from spare tyres to pigeons, whilst high in the mountains yak-herding nomads [...]

Everest Peak, Tibet

Dennis — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:28:34 +0000

Everest (8,848m), the world’s first summit, is similar to an east-west arc of mountains, located in the middle of the Nepalese Himalayas on the border, Tingri in Xigaze Prefecture of Tibet south. Among the many rivers in the Himalayas erosion and cutting, the formation of many of the several thousand meters deep gorge channel, Tibet [...]

Koh Phi Phi (Thailand)

Joost — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:23:23 +0000

These idyllic islands near Phuket were the scene of the enchanting scenes from the movie The Beach. Vertical rock faces rise right out of the water hiding tiny coves, caves, and tiny beaches of legends.

Mystic Beach (Japan)

Dennis — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:46:58 +0000

The white beach that only appears at low tide. Yurigahama Beach has “hoshinosuna (star sand)” which is the shell of foraminifera in the sand. The saying is if you find and pick up same number of hoshinosuna as your age, you will be happy. It is certainly a breathtakingly beautiful scene with mysterious mood, and [...]

Yalong Bay (Hainan, China)

Joost — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:50:51 +0000

At the same latitude as Hawaii, Hainan is where mainland Chinese come to get that Waikiki feeling without leaving home. Near Sanya on Hainan’s southern tip, may lack Polynesia’s heaving surf and swaying skirts, its broad white beaches are better than many in Hawaii.

House of Shambhala (Lhasa, Tibet)

Dennis — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:37:12 +0000

A small boutique hotel in the Barkhor neighborhood at the historic heart of old Lhasa. All rooms are skilfully decked out with Tibetan furniture painted in gold and crimson, furry white rugs and exquisite Buddhist thangka paintings.

Nanjiabawa Peak, Tibet

Dennis — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:58:25 +0000

Mount Namjagbarwa (7782m) full of wonderful legends, because of its soaring peak, the local gods of the sky Legend has it often fell on their gatherings and Wei Sang, high-altitude winds caused the Qiyun is God who ignited the Sandinista tobacco, is said to There are Jingu Peak Road and Ten, living in the valley [...]

Yellow Mountains, Anhui

Dennis — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:44:08 +0000

Huangshan, or Yellow Mountain, is located in the south of Anhui province in eastern China. Famous for its magnificent landscape – pine forrest, strange stone, cloud sea and hot spring. It is one of famous mountains in China. Yellow Mountain has 72 peaks with different dimensions. The three main peaks – the Lotus Peak, the [...]