Category: Travel: Asia

Satao Elerai Camp, Kenya - Elle Magazine

9/2/2017

Amboselli National Park, Kenya
Intimacy typically comes with privacy, and Satao Elerai Camp has this in spades – but do expect to share your quiet, romantic moments with the occasional roaring elephant. Up close. Prepare also for the constant gaze of mighty Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Dine on the Line - Get Up & Go

3/2/2016

In search of the perfect Taiwanese sunset, Rob Grant instead discovered a legendary lunch that stole the spotlight.
Have you ever eaten an entree that overshadows the main? Or watched a support band outperform the headliners? I felt this way after a scenic train ride in
Taiwan, en-route to a promised majestic mountain sunset. My lasting memory is the lunch en-route.
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Fenchihu lunchbox (Credit: Rob Grant)

The Best Art Experiences in Shanghai - SMH & China Eastern Airline

9/5/2015

Beautiful and Brazen, Huge and Hidden
Contemporary art from China is the hottest property in the art world right now. For a long time, the capital Beijing dominated the scene. Now Shanghai has emerged from its shadows as a truly world-class art destination. All across the city, public galleries have sprung up and played a pivotal role in regenerating dilapidated industrial areas. The scene is not just for serious art buffs.
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China Art Museum, Shanghai (Source: SMH)

Blossoming Romance in Kyoto - Holidays with Couples

1/4/2015

Kyoto’s unique blend of charming history and natural beauty makes it a lovers’ paradise. It might even inspire the ultimate romantic plunge.
Crammed with 1,200 years of history, spread across babbling streams and gushing rivers, encircled by towering mountains and sister city to Paris, Florence and Prague, Kyoto’s romantic credentials are world class. So enamoured was I on my first visit, the next time I took my girlfriend and an engagement ring.
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Blossoms on show (photo credit: Kyoto City Tourism)

Tub Crawl in Kinosaki - Vacations & Travel Magazine

1/4/2015

Nearly 1300 years ago, the Japanese discovered Kinosaki Onsen’s magical, restorative waters. Now visitors are invited to shed their clothes and take a dip.
The idea of wearing just a bathrobe while on holiday certainly promises a relaxing time. But it’s a little odd. Especially when this minimalist outfit is worn for strolls along the main street, meals in busy restaurants and even drinks in local watering holes. Yet in Kinosaki Onsen, two-and-a-half hours from Kyoto on the north-west coast of Japan’s Honshu, this practice is almost mandatory.
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Local bathers (photo credit: Rob Grant)

Kyoto Cuisine - The Weekend Australian

17/2/2015

HOME COOKING FROM THE HEART
The authentic pleasure of learning from a local.
UMBRELLAS stand upright in the hallway. There are family photos in plastic frames and kids’ shoes on the floor. It seems hardly the setting for a popular cooking class, but when obanzai, or traditional home-style Kyoto food, is on the menu it is entirely fitting...
BRIGHT BITES OF THE OLD CAPITAL
Tea for two, eat on the run and season finale.
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Eating with Haru and Family (photo credit: Sandra Witzel)

Roar into Shanghai - Vacations & Travel Magazine

1/10/2014

Beneath Shanghai’s futuristic skyline, the city’s glorious Art-Deco past is coming back to life, day and night.
Prohibition-style saloons. Swinging jazz bands. Art-Deco artistry. You might think we are talking about the likes of Chicago, New York, London or Paris. Yet, back in an inter-war era known for its decadence, this was Shanghai – and the majestic Chinese city held its own on the world stage....
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The Bund, Shanghai (photo credit: Fairmont Peace Hotel)

Many Hands Make Lights Work - Renegade Collective

1/7/2014

FROM A BASE in Shanghai’s CUTTING EDGE art district, radical art collective island6 creates anonymous COLLABORATIVE works to light up the world.
It’s hard to imagine a dull day at work when your colleagues include a Russian architect, Irish sound engineer, Chinese dancer and French digital animator. Linguistically challenging, perhaps, but rarely dull...
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Making of 'Pushing & Pulling' (photo credit: island6)

A Room at the Inn - Passage to China - The Weekend Australian

31/5/2014

French bred in a rural idyll two hours from Shanghai.
CRAMMED into the ever-rising metropolis of Shanghai are more people than live in Australia. It is therefore rather a shock to arrive, just two hours away, at Moganshan, in a tranquil and idyllic rural setting. My orientation is further knocked when I realise I seem to have pitched up at a luxurious French country home.
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Le Passage at Dawn (photo credit: Le Passage)

Electric Mix of Sensations - mX Escape

17/12/2013

Rob Grant was butt-naked, in Japan, when he discovered electricity and water can mix.
After five days stumbling across the Japanese ski fields, my body was stiffer than sun-dried jeans and a long soak in a deep bath seriously needed. Being electrocuted, however, was not top of my Kyoto itinerary...
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Funaoko Onsen, Kyoto (photo credit: kyotobaths.info)