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Hitting a home run
THERE are signs aplenty that 2009 will be a year when many Australians decide to go domestic.
Yasawa Island Resort and Spa, Fiji
With the ocean at your doorstep and everything else you might need a few languid steps away, this is an idyllic Blue Lagoon hideaway
The Taj West End, Bangalore
Find peace, quiet and heritage charm in the heart of India’s frenetic Silicon Valley
Sabora Plains Tented Camp
Pitch up to this luxury resort in Tanzania, where your suite under canvas offers silver service and easy access to the wildest animals of the Serengeti
Clickety-clack, the old traveller’s back
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star By Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, 496pp, $35 PAUL Theroux is backtracking, retracing the route he took to write The Great Railway Bazaar.
The Eugenia
Amid Bangkok’s bustle is a boutique hotel that offers guests an eccentric take of a colonial history Thailand never had
Glory days
Colonial splendour lives on in Asia’s grand hotels, perfect places for dressing ups and swanning about. Anyone for croquet?
A charming colonial boatyard comes with a hint of old spice
THE bed is high and old-fashioned with a striped hand-loomed quilt and on the red-tiled bathroom floor stands a washbasin the size of a laundry tub. There are timber and rattan chairs, a tall armoire and a small writing desk; it’s not a glamorous room but it doesn’t need to be. The real attractions here are the harbourside location and maritime views.
Slip slidin’ away
IT is true Departure Lounge is not terribly adept at being in the great outdoors. But given the Canada and Alaska theme this week, it seems opportune to reminisce about Lounge’s airing in the Bugaboo Mountains in the Western Rockies.
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