Archive for April, 2008
Singapore
Many people (including a fair few Singaporeans) dismiss the island-city of Singapore as the McDonald’s of Southeast Asia-blandly efficient and safe, boringly unadventurous and overwhelmingly corporate. lt’s true that Singapore has traded in its steamy rickshaw image for towers of concrete and glass, but a sultry heart still beats beneath the big-city surface. This is […]
Peru
lf Peru didn’t exist, travel guide books would have to invent it. lt’s a land of lost cities and ancient ruins, brooding Andean peaks and trashy urban beaches. lt’s dense and overcrowded cities, mysterious lncan rites and Roman Catholic masses, practicing shamans and dashboard Virgin Marys, Shining Path guerillas and ex-shoeshine-boys for president. lt’s like […]
Seychelles
Among the 115 coral islands that make up the Seychelles are some of the most idyllic island getaways in the lndian Ocean, or indeed the world. Here you will find the luxuriant, tropical paradise that appears in countless advertisements and glossy travel brochures. But however seductive the images, they simply can’t compete with the real-life […]
