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South Africa’s Blue Train

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by BCAA.

Erik, my butler, is escorting me to my room with the kind of understated grace found in noble families. He stashes my bags; explains the intricacies of the electronically controlled window blinds, the telephone and the television (which can be used to watch in-house movies or documentaries about the areas the train traverses), and shows me where to place my shoes for polishing and my clothes for ironing. And, oh, yes, if I want anything, anything at all, I have only to ring.

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24 Hours: Shanghai

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Jim Sutherland.

From May to October 2010, China’s biggest, busiest and flashiest city is hosting what promises to be the biggest, busiest and flashiest World’s Fair ever. The only problem may be determining which neighbourhood crowded with pedestrian throngs and architectural marvels is the fair site and which is just Shanghai. Pudong, for example, an area of town conceived in the 1990s, rivals anything the fair’s designers have come up with. And that’s saying something . . .

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Hawaii: A Traveller’s Postcard

Posted on 09. Nov, 2009 by BCAA.

Never turn your back on the ocean, unless you are about to eat
by Rob Howatson
  It is our first night at Kona Village Resort on Hawaii’s Big Island, where Leila and I have been assigned a window seat in the property’s quiet but elegant restaurant. As my wife scans the [...]

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India Head-On

Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by BCAA.

To take a train is to ride India’s bloodstream; to go by chauffeured limo is, well, one sweet surprise

by Kerry McPhedran

Miss Kerry? Phone call! Please follow.”

Phone call? It’s November. I’m alternately blotting sweat and sipping a chilled Kingfisher on a rooftop terrace four storeys above the Ganges, India’s holiest river, in Varanasi – India’s holiest city. Those lucky enough to die here, where Lord Shiva married, or to be cremated alongside the Ganga Ma (Mother Ganges), revered as a living goddess, are believed to break free of the endless cycle of reincarnation. Peace is theirs.

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