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Taveuni Island, straddling the International Date Line, is a lush getaway |
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Sheriden Rhodes discovers retro furnishings and a personal chef in Australia's most alluring seaside retreats. |
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Visitors to Byron Bay, the most easterly town on the world's most easterly continent, sometimes wonder if they are still on planet earth. |
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For a truly invigorating experience, take a trip to this warm island paradise in French Polynesia. Visit the colorful Papeete markets, swim with friendly stingrays, find a deserted island or have breakfast delivered to your own over water bungalow. |
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Yachting and golfing go hand in hand with the opening of the Whitsunday Islands' first resort golf course and sophisticated yacht club. Perfect for superyacht owners with a penchant for sweeping fairways amid hilltop greens, stylish elegance arrives in the Whitsundays.
Fiona Harper takes on 18 holes at Hamilton Island Golf Club, followed by sundowners overlooking Dent Passage at Hamilton Island Yacht Club |
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After civil strife, earthquake and tsunami, the Solomon Islands are on the rebound |
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If your idea of a holiday is hanging by the neck in a medieval style torture chamber then a Slovakian spa is for you. |
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Thai'd of Mediocrity? These Hip New Thai Hotels will leave you inspired. And not only are they super cool, they beat with a very warm heart.
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The Hunter Valley is Australia's first and still one of its best wine-growing regions. |
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Savusavu, on Fiji’s second biggest island Vanua Levu, is dressed to kill. |
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There is something decidedly exotic about hopping onboard a private jet and being whisked away to a far-flung South Pacific Island. Particularly so when your destination has been declared one of the 100 most beautiful hotels and resorts of the world.
Reporting from an exclusive retreat on a privately owned island in Fiji, Fiona Harper discovers that perfection has a new name. It's called Laucala Island. |
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There is no elegant way to climb up onto an elephant. Tricia Welsh learns this at a mahout’s course in Northern Thailand. |
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India dances to a different beat throughout the Malabar, a culturally rich and scenically diverse region of northern Kerala. |
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Often overlooked by their media tart cousins, the Whitsunday Islands, Fiona Harper explores some of the lesser known islands of north Queensland. |
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Tourist Police or policing the tourists? |
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Visitors to SW Queensland in the Australian outback are invariably stunned by the richness and abundance of nature-treasures. |
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Karen Halabi explores the palace and fort hotels of Rajasthan, royal retreats which have become upmarket historic hotels, where you can breathe the rarefied gentile air of a bygone era. |
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Qualia, a truly Australian resort on the Great Barrier Reef, joins Australia' s luxury resort scene. |
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Visitors to Bali now have a new reason to visit with luxury spas cropping up all over the island. |
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City-dwellers recharge their batteries – and graze on nature’s finest – within an hour or two of metropolitan Brisbane |
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The twin towns of Daylesford and Hepburn Springs, in Victoria, are united by the outstanding healing qualities of their natural mineral springs |
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Enormous, square white sails billow against an impossibly blue sky. Her elegant bow plunges upwards into the gentle ocean swell.
Join Fiona Harper for an Indian Ocean crossing onboard luxury tall ship Star Clipper. |
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The chieftain of Kundu Hite (Skull Island) in the Solomon Islands is last in a long line of headhunters |
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The son of Zambia’s first President Kenneth Kaunda reminisces about his days growing up at "The Mushroom House", where Africa's history was shaped |
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In Kyneton’s Piper Street the vision, the drive and the creativity of a handful of people has created a dining and shopping strip as alluring as any in metropolitan Melbourne. |
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