A feature about sustainable and authentic destinations around the world.
No city in the world stresses you out quite like Tokyo. With its narrow streets, densely packed subways and frenetic pace, it’s no wonder the Japanese capital also has a famous wellness culture to treat the inevitable anxiety.
In an oversized, wood-paneled boardroom with a view of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace, Tsubasa Yokote is trying to explain the city’s approach to sustainable tourism. And it’s not easy.
Kuala Lumpur is known for gleaming skyscrapers and luxury resorts, but not necessarily for sustainable hotels. The Hotel Indigo Kuala Lumpur On The Park is determined to change that.
Kota Kinabalu is the kind of place that seems straight out of your imagination. Not far from the capital of the Malaysian state of Sabah, you can find proboscis monkeys swinging through ancient rainforests and giant clams the size of coffee tables lurking beneath turquoise waters.
The aroma in Trudy’s Tan’s kitchen in Kuching, Malaysia, is intoxicating. It’s a blend of the familiar and the utterly new: garlic and pepper with Terung Iban, the sour eggplant found in Borneo. It’s Gula Apong, also known as Nipah palm sugar, caramelized with fried potato wedges
Just after sunset on a ranch outside Alice Springs, Australia, the inky blackness of the night sky drapes across the Outback.
Margret Campbell stands at the edge of Sydney’s Harbor foreshore, her hand brushing the leaves of a seasonal wattle tree.
Aurora Expeditions, a small Sydney-based cruise line, is on a mission to rewrite the cruise industry’s sustainability narrative in a big way.
The Sydney Opera House is more than just an architectural marvel. It’s more than the gleaming white sails that grace postcards, Instagram feeds, and travel documentaries. It’s more than the iconic backdrop to Australia’s New Year’s Eve fireworks.
If there’s one word to sum up Flockhill Lodge, a new luxury resort in New Zealand, it is “more.”
