The giant tortoise was agonisingly slow and stately as it inched with plodding precision across the road. Two cars and a bicycle patiently came to a halt as this ancient shelled creature — one is pictured below — caused the rarest of occurrences on the island of Praslin: a traffic jam in the Seychelles, lasting … Read more
This may have been a year of rules, more rules and a whole lot of undesirable travel restrictions — but that does not mean you can’t have an enjoyable autumn break. The ‘rule of six’, although limiting big multi-generational gatherings, makes smaller family get-togethers quite possible at one of many hundreds of rental cottages at … Read more
Poolside bars, revolving restaurants, marbled lobbies and huge indoor swimming pools. These are standard features in posh Western hotels – and, it turns out, in North Korean hotels, too, as a fascinating new book reveals. Hotels of Pyongyang, by author James Scullin and photographer Nicole Reed, takes readers inside the frozen-in-time, yet surprisingly glamorous, hotels … Read more
Right now, I should be lying on a sunbed beside the infinity pool, above the old town of Ibiza with friends, chilled rosé in hand. Instead, I am reclining on a grassy knoll surrounded by deep woods and yellowing fields, greedy bees ravishing the lavender borders. No pool, but the rosé is in place. I … Read more
BEST HOTEL IN LONDON: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park BEST HOTEL IN THE REST OF THE UK: Gleneagles, Scotland BEST HOTEL IN IRELAND: The Westbury, Dublin BEST HOTEL IN PARIS: La Réserve Paris Hotel & Spa BEST HOTEL IN THE REST OF FRANCE & MONACO: Grand-Hotel Du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel BEST HOTEL IN ROME: … Read more
The other-worldly majesty of the Faroe Islands captured in a set of stunning drone images by a photographer who said the archipelago ‘just doesn’t look real’ The Faroe Islands are located between Iceland and Norway – a place where sheep outnumber people These stunning images of the archipelago were taken by Brazilian Henrique Murta, who … Read more
Ascending to this incredible new observation deck might just be the peak experience of a visit to the Italian Alps. Called Ötzi Peak 3251m, it is perched around the corner from Austria on the Schnals Valley Glacier ridge in the South Tyrol at a height, as the name suggests, of 3,251m (10,666ft). The viewing platform … Read more
You’ve seen Petra in Jordan on the silver screen in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, now it’s time to plan a visit to see it in real life, because according to the adventure experts at Lonely Planet it’s the No1 place to experience in the world. It features as the top-ranked destination in the … Read more
The Thousand Islands. It sounds like a land from a fairy tale – but it exists. A constellation of islands as magical as it sounds, as these pictures show. The name undersells it though, because this archipelago on the Saint Lawrence River, which straddles Ontario and New York State on the US-Canada border, consists of … Read more
From the mesmerising ‘Game of Thrones trees’ to epic Monument Valley: The wanderlust-inducing images submitted to a prestigious annual photo contest The 15 images are some of the entries so far in the travel and culture category of the 2021 Cewe Photo Award They include a beautiful image of the French city of Strasbourg and … Read more