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iol travel sep 6 Kathmandu
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Why now’s the time to visit Kathmandu

Despite the scuffles that broke out recently between sherpas and mountaineers - Nepal's spring trekking season is in full flow.

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iol travel may 10 NM Baro Island resort
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Paradise: handle with care

Is there anything travellers to the Maldives can do to give something back to this fragile environment they are putting under so much pressure, asks Kate Humble... Read Story

iol travel may 2 Mt. Fuji
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Mt. Fuji to get world heritage status

Fuju rises from the Pacific coast and is seen as a sacred part of Japan's cultural landscape.

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A monkey looks for food near an ashram in Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu.

Why now’s the time to visit Kathmandu
May 15 2013 at 14:08

Despite the scuffles that broke out recently between sherpas and mountaineers - Nepal's spring trekking season is in full flow.

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Baros Island is the epitome of the Maldives tropical paradise, complete with thatched wooden villas perched on stilts above the turquoise waters of the warm Indian Ocean.

Paradise: handle with care
May 10 2013 at 13:54

Is there anything travellers to the Maldives can do to give something back to this fragile environment they are putting under so much pressure, asks Kate Humble.

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Skyscrapers in Tokyo's Shinjuku district frame Mt. Fuji at dusk.

Mt. Fuji to get world heritage status
May 2 2013 at 07:40

Fuju rises from the Pacific coast and is seen as a sacred part of Japan's cultural landscape.

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FINERY: At the Jim Thompson House there is a display of silk cocoons and raw silk threads in an array of vibrant colours. PICTURES: ALISON FOAT

Intoxicating City of Angels
April 29 2013 at 08:31

Bangkok continues to live up to the title of the world’s best city for travellers, writes Alison Foat.

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This photograph taken from an aircraft shows an aerial view of Mount Everest and the Himalayan mountain range. File photo: AFP

Monuments to link Earth’s low, high points
April 25 2013 at 12:43

A monument containing a stone from the Dead Sea was placed on Mount Everest in a symbolic link between the lowest and highest points on Earth.

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This photograph taken from an aircraft shows an aerial view of Mount Everest and the Himalayan mountain range. File photo: AFP

Do the Thai island hop
April 24 2013 at 08:03

If sun, swimming and good times are what you’re into, then the Thai Islands are all yours.

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SPECTACLE: Naga men take part in a dramatic performance. PICTURES: Rodger Bosch

India’s proud headhunters
April 22 2013 at 08:34

Trophy heads, folk songs and competitive festivals are the pride of the Nagas, writes Riana Geldenhys.

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A general view of the AdLabs Imagica theme park at Khopoli, some 70km southwest of Mumbai.

Welcome to India’s most elaborate theme park
April 18 2013 at 07:46

In the style of a Disney or Universal Studios park, the new tourist site hopes to fill a gap in the Indian leisure market and comes with twists.

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Souvenirs are offered to tourists visiting the floating market, which only opens in the afternoon when the water level in the canal rises.

Step back in time
April 15 2013 at 13:15

You’ll be struck by nostalgia at the traditional Thai stilt houses, Buddhist temples and old-style convenience stores, writes Amy Sawitta Lefevre.

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The border village of Panmunjom, that has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War.

Tourists to N Korea border unfazed by threats
April 10 2013 at 07:49

For some foreign visitors, the hot rhetoric has even become a white-knuckle incentive to travel to the heavily fortified border.

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