<![CDATA[South China Morning Post - Travel & Leisure\]]> Follow South China Morning Post - Travel & Leisure\, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/scmp44 Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:09:39 +0200 <![CDATA[Sanya boosts efforts to attract overseas tourists to the region’s tropical shores and natural scenery]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUk7fNi1DvDVKV1cWWor9YPv The ‘Travel the World, Stay in Sanya’ initiative invites young travellers to experience Hainan’s beauty and culture, as the province steps up efforts to promote Sanya and attract overseas tourists.]]> Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:00:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUk7fNi1DvDVKV1cWWor9YPv <![CDATA[Swim with the world’s largest gathering of manta rays at Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru – if you are lucky]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnvGvBL75DT7ps0ohxaO6Yr Guests are issued a ‘manta phone’ when they check in to a Four Seasons resort in the Maldives – to summon them if and when the world’s largest known group of manta rays, which gathers in waters nearby, is sighted.]]> Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:15:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnvGvBL75DT7ps0ohxaO6Yr <![CDATA[Paint your nails the Ainu way, make embroidery, wear fish-skin shoes, stay in a themed hotel – Hokkaido, Japan celebrates its indigenous people]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUl_XEx4MR0zEpVjH6qdYdAk Paint your nails with swirling Ainu designs, try on salmon-skin shoes, sample Ainu food or stay at a themed hot-springs hotel – Hokkaido in Japan is belatedly celebrating its indigenous people.]]> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:15:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUl_XEx4MR0zEpVjH6qdYdAk <![CDATA[The Korean DMZ: bridges and bullet holes, tunnels and memorials, and a lush strip of no man’s land riddled with landmines]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUkS5AGsk4X5hyejEQ2Mq9rY On a trip to the Korean demilitarised zone (DMZ), visitors can look across to the secretive North, see tunnels built to invade South Korea, and walk onto bridges that once joined two nations still technically at war.]]> Mon, 25 Sep 2023 01:15:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUkS5AGsk4X5hyejEQ2Mq9rY <![CDATA[Fiesole in Italy: escape Florence’s tourist crowds in tranquil Tuscan town that has long inspired authors and artists]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnuTdKNbnTgY6CY3L745TL_ Just 5km from Florence but feeling much further away, the verdant Italian town of Fiesole in Tuscany has inspired authors and artists such as Gertrude Stein, E. M. Forster and Dante Alighieri for millennia.]]> Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:15:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnuTdKNbnTgY6CY3L745TL_ <![CDATA[The Anantara Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky may be Amsterdam’s best-located hotel – but what’s an Asian resort brand doing in a heaving European city?]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUneF1Dv6f0kYl1cWWor9YPv Amsterdam’s Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, opened in 1883, was recently taken over by Asian resort brand Anantara. We checked in to find out why.]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:15:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUneF1Dv6f0kYl1cWWor9YPv <![CDATA[Where are the world’s best hotels in 2023? 4 of the top 5 are in Asia – and Hong Kong has 2 of them]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUmy6WZv-zooDsb1naedg1wr Four of the 5 hotels atop The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2023 list are in Asia – two of them in Hong Kong. Top billing in the inaugural rankings went to a 24-room hotel in Europe.]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:45:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUmy6WZv-zooDsb1naedg1wr <![CDATA[When an oil spill in Hong Kong waters from a ship that ran aground caused a mass fish kill]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUmgSVObYvHIVOzdsCmHakzH A Danish container ship ran aground in 1977, releasing crude bunker oil that left 110 tonnes of fish dead. Lamma Island fish farmers were later compensated for their losses.]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:15:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUmgSVObYvHIVOzdsCmHakzH <![CDATA[8 of Dubai’s best new restaurant destinations opening this season, from a huge European-style dining complex to a fine-dining Indian outpost]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUm-SJ9iV9jDcZs0ohxaO6Yr An expansive space dedicated to European food and the outpost of a Michelin-star Indian restaurant are among eight of the best new dining destinations opening in Dubai.]]> Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:51:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUm-SJ9iV9jDcZs0ohxaO6Yr <![CDATA[Why San Francisco’s iconic cable cars and ferries are in the spotlight in 2023]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUmXTaieAPakr6CY3L745TL_ Celebrating their 150th and 125th anniversaries respectively, San Francisco’s cable cars and Ferry Building give a fascinating insight into how public transport systems can help build a city.]]> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:15:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUmXTaieAPakr6CY3L745TL_ <![CDATA[A game changer? Coffee farmers in Malaysia hope to plant the seeds of tourism in a remote corner of Sarawak, Borneo]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUk5Pl4yyi_NMcb1naedg1wr Tourists are drawn to the homestays of northeast Sarawak, Malaysia, for jungle adventures and to sample indigenous culture. Farmers who have planted coffee bushes hope the project will be another visitor draw.]]> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 05:15:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUk5Pl4yyi_NMcb1naedg1wr <![CDATA[When Michael Palin did North Korea: fixer and travel agency co-founder on 30 years of taking visitors into the country]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUkMq7R8RQ7M1-zdsCmHakzH The British co-founder of North Korea travel firm Koryo Tours, who helped Michael Palin into the country to film a documentary, tells the Post how to get the most out of a visit to the secretive state.]]> Sat, 16 Sep 2023 23:45:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUkMq7R8RQ7M1-zdsCmHakzH <![CDATA[Slow travel: to the Philippine paradise of Palawan by bus and ferry, with a stop to dive in Puerto Galera]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnkKDhRDtdGjJVjH6qdYdAk We island-hop our way by jeep, bus, minivan and ferry to Palawan, a place of pearly white beaches, coral reefs, karst cliffs and rainforest that ecologists call the Philippines’ ‘last frontier’.]]> Sat, 16 Sep 2023 07:15:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnkKDhRDtdGjJVjH6qdYdAk <![CDATA[These trained dogs at the Sydney Opera House precinct rescue tourists from the Australian city’s worst food thieves]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUl1l508RzAD3-T5HJgy6HUf Twelve dogs deployed at Australia’s Sydney Opera House precinct that have been trained for just one task – to stop seagulls from stealing tourists’ food – have become an attraction in themselves.]]> Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:15:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUl1l508RzAD3-T5HJgy6HUf <![CDATA[8 natural disasters that shook tourists to their core]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnz2bToIEDX16CY3L745TL_ From this year’s Greek wildfires to the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption and 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, these eight natural disasters left their mark on tourists.]]> Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:15:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnz2bToIEDX16CY3L745TL_ <![CDATA[Unesco intangible cultural heritage: horse-riding shrimp fishermen of Belgium who are the last of their kind]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnXA6NYyeJSFcb1naedg1wr The Belgian beach resort of Oostduinkerke is the last remaining place where shrimp fishing on horseback is practised, and the full spectacle is a sight to behold.]]> Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:45:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUnXA6NYyeJSFcb1naedg1wr <![CDATA[When triads firebombed a Hong Kong restaurant and mahjong club, killing six and injuring 24, after non-payment of ‘protection’ money]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUlhphIwwPd24nn9ye8UNv30 A Hong Kong restaurant and mahjong club was firebombed in 1990 after refusing to pay local gangsters. Six men, including two shareholders in the King Ford Moon Restaurant and Mahjong Club, were killed.]]> Tue, 12 Sep 2023 05:15:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUlhphIwwPd24nn9ye8UNv30 <![CDATA[Best places to see the 2024 Great American Eclipse and 2023 ‘ring of fire’]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUk_w-IcoSgI-ilmFkX7M1Jw The ‘Great North American Eclipse’ – a total solar eclipse – will take place on April 8, 2024, preceded by a ‘ring of fire’ around the moon on October 14, 2023. Here are the best places to see them.]]> Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:15:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUk_w-IcoSgI-ilmFkX7M1Jw <![CDATA[As Unesco updates World Heritage list in Riyadh, sites from France to Cambodia vie for status while crowded Venice, war-torn Kyiv at risk of downgrade]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUm-D6N3ETh-quzdsCmHakzH There are 53 applicants represented in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for this year’s meeting to update the Unesco World Heritage list. But longtime entries from Venice to Ukraine are in danger of being classified as ‘at risk’.]]> Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:15:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUm-D6N3ETh-quzdsCmHakzH <![CDATA[Morocco earthquake: tourists in Marrakech choose to stay on – ‘We’re not going to let the earthquake ruin everything’]]> https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUl4WvutVguIS-T5HJgy6HUf Some of the tourists in Marrakech when a deadly earthquake struck near the Moroccan city have decided to continue their holiday, despite the damage and deaths it caused.]]> Mon, 11 Sep 2023 04:53:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/UHsjY7aYpUl4WvutVguIS-T5HJgy6HUf