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New Taipei City Christmasland, Taiwan’s largest Christmas celebration, runs until December 28 this year in Banqiao district. Photo: Shutterstock
Christmas

What the festive season looks like across Asia’s most vibrant cities

Christmas markets, fireworks and giant lanterns are all in store if you’re seeing in the season elsewhere in Asia.

Asia travel

Travel like Gen Z and try shoulder-season escapes from Seoul to Santorini

Travel Destinations

6 up-and-coming ski resorts for your winter break on the slopes

History

Collections gone wild: from 20,000 condiment shakers to a mansion of mini books

Toys, pencil sharpeners, penises – people amass the oddest things; fortunately, many of those collections are exhibited in museums.

Museum of Miniature Books, Baku. Photo: Shutterstock
Luxury Hotels

The Hong Kong-brand hotels taking Asian flavours to world-class kitchens abroad

Applewood-smoked Peking duck? Truffle sando? These restaurants offer destination dining with a side of Hong Kong-branded hospitality.

Sustainability

With the innovative albergo diffuso concept, an entire village is your hotel

6 of the most charming ‘scattered hotels’ - in Nagasaki, Japan; Abruzzo, Italy; Beijing, China and elsewhere.

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European travel

The train experiences granting a different perspective on Britain

As Britain celebrates 200 years of the modern railway, discover the world’s oldest track or become a steam train driver for a day.

Steam Dreams’ Lakes Express takes in northern England’s Lake District. Photo: Stream Dreams
Sustainability

8 sustainable getaways: are these the world’s most eco-friendly destinations?

Singapore, Copenhagen, Bhutan and others put the planet and local communities first.

Germany

Chemnitz v Rothenburg: a tale of two German cities

Rothenburg ob der Tauber is fairly well-known among visitors to small-town Germany but Chemnitz, a European Capital of Culture for 2025, is also worth your time.

South Africa

On foot with lions and cheetahs in a rewilded corner of South Africa’s Karoo

A century after the springbok vanished, lions and cheetahs now roam the Karoo’s restored wilderness once more.

Tracking a cheetah on foot in the Samara Karoo Reserve. Home to almost 60 indigenous species of mammal, Samara is known for its cheetah sightings. Photo: courtesy Samara Karoo Reserve
Books and literature

Your next holiday could be the setting of your favourite novel

From Agatha Christie’s Nile to Gabriel García Márquez’s Cartagena, book lovers are booking real-world trips through fictional worlds.

The River Nile flows through Aswan, in Egypt, the country that provided inspiration for several of Agatha Christie’s works. Photo: Shutterstock
Asia travel

How the Bone Healer might help you see a different side of Bali

A visit to a medicine man puts one pain-ridden writer on the road to the best of Bali’s less-visited attractions.

Locals' Guide

Insiders’ guide to Sri Lanka’s Southern Province

Galle Fort and the southern beaches are on the itinerary for many visitors, but the surrounding area also has much to offer.

Switzerland

Where cows wear crowns and children march in bells

In the Swiss village of Seewis im Prättigau, an ancient Alpine tradition marks the end of summer with parades of flower-crowned cows, bands on horse-drawn carts and a beard contest judged in a school gym.

Children have their own procession during the end-of-summer Alp Spektakel, in the Swiss Alpine village of Seewis im Prättigau. Photo: Victoria Burrrows
Travel Destinations

For scenery and serenity, Asia’s hilltop hideaways cannot be beaten

From the Himalayas to the misty peaks of Southeast Asia, hilltop villages are an escape from the rigours of modern life and the summer heat.

Bamboo baskets of chillies, corn and chrysanthemum petals dry in the sun in Huangling village, in China’s Jiangxi province. Photo: China News Service
Food and Drinks

How Bordeaux winemakers are starting to think responsibly

The winds of organic change are being felt even among the vineyards of France’s most traditional wine-producing region.

Asia travel

Less bling, more wabi-sabi: Japan’s answer to modern luxury

As global luxury cools, brands are redefining high-end living through a uniquely Japanese lens – from a hinoki-wood tissue box to a Kyoto textile house.

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China travel

A moped ride through China’s ‘Forest of 10,000 Peaks’, Wanfenglin

This tranquil valley in Guizhou has scenery to rival that in Guilin – and is best enjoyed by moped.

A farmer in China’s Wanfenglin, a valley of rice paddies and quaint villages hemmed in by limestone karst formations. Photo: Chan Kit Yeng
Locals' Guide

Insiders’ guide to Jakarta: from cultural festivals to hip coffee shops

Indonesia’s capital has plenty to offer visitors willing to stay awhile.

Locals' Guide

Insiders say Taipei is a city that ‘reveals itself in layers’

Tastemakers tell us about the Taiwanese capital’s latest hotspots and the under-the-tourist-radar classics they keep returning to.

US travel

Heed the call of the wild in Yellowstone, America’s first national park

The evolution of Yellowstone is an experiment in ecological restoration starring wild wolves and bison.

Coyotes, which come lower down the carnivore hierarchy than wolves, are a familiar sight in Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Daniel Allen
European travel

Think Innsbruck is all about skiing? Then think again

From royalty to jewellery and serious cuisine, there’s more to the historically rich Austrian ski town than its popular runs.

Snow capped mountains tower above the historic Goldenes Dachl, or Golden Roof, in the medieval Old Town of Innsbruck, Austria. Photo: Shutterstock
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