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Hidden Gem: Shopping in Santiago, Chile: for Time magazine
Santiago is one of South America's best-kept shopping secrets. With prices in their own countries skyrocketing because of inflation, well-heeled Argentines and Brazilians are flocking to the Chilean capital for their luxury purchases. Among the best buys�besides leather and wine�are [...]
Malaysian Sensations: Four Seasons Langkawi. For Time magazine
Most spa resorts are so cookie-cutter that once you check in, it's hard to tell if you're in Krabi or the Maldives. Not so at the new Four Seasons Langkawi, tel: (60-4) 950 8888. The design of this resort has [...]
Whey They Go: New Zealand. For Time magazine
If you think New Zealand cheese means processed cheddar slices, be prepared for a surprise. The country has seen a mini boom in artisanal cheeses in recent years, with producers taking advantage of a pristine environment and prime, grass-fed dairy [...]
Waterworld, Time magazine
Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much�after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located [...]
The Oil Boom: Time magazine.
The Oil Boom: Time magazine. June 24, 2005 New Zealand's olive-oil industry is barely 20 years old, but since the first olive trees were experimentally planted in the country in 1985, the number of olive growers there has soared [...]
The Smell of Success: Time magazine
The Smell of Success: Time magazine, September 05, 2005 (Of course, link won't work unless you are a subscriber, so I am not giving the link) If you're stranded in Bangalore, you won't go hungry. This southern city is rapidly [...]
Game Show: About safari parks in South Africa: for Time magazine
The silhouette of a lone acacia at sunset, the tremulous gaze of an impala: these are some of the pleasures of Africa, and you don't have to go all Ernest Hemingway to experience them. New-generation game lodges — with spas, [...]
Thread of Hope: wearing healing clothes: for Time magazine
Thread of Hope: from Time magazine February 12, 2006 Never mind applying creams and lotions—if you could relieve a skin ailment simply by the kind of clothes you wear, or the bed linen you use, wouldn't you? The Handloom Weavers [...]
India’s Lust for Luxe: from Time magazine April 3, 2006
New Delhi entrepreneur Natasha Chaudhri chases after expensive fashion products like a big-game hunter in pursuit of wildlife pelts. Owner of three restaurants in Bombay and Goa, two lifestyle stores in Delhi and an export business, Chaudhri, 30, has the [...]
Cruise holidays: for Time magazine
Asia-Pacific cruise holidays have become one of travel's hottest tickets in recent years, with eager operators offering packed itineraries and massive liners to entertain and accommodate ever growing legions of eastbound vacationers. Good organization, hassle-free immigration, no language problems and [...]
Natasha and Jeeth Iype
Bangalore may be India's high-tech heart, but in one part of its leafy suburbs, there's a group of environmentalists trying to get back to the garden. In 2003, husband-and-wife architects Jeeth and Natasha Iype, working with Stanley George, a civil [...]
Nothing Doing at Maia Spa and Resort, Seychelles for Time magazine
Maia, an ultra-luxurious resort in the Seychelles, may offer canoeing, fishing and snorkeling excursions, but our tip is to give them all a miss. This seven-month-old property is instead made for mooching on an opulent scale. Picture 30 sumptuous villas, [...]