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Hadaka Matsuri at Saidai-Ji Temple, Okayama
Save the Date
The regional travel calendar for the next three months comes packed with festive highlights, from a Broadway show to world’s biggest gay and lesbian parade.
Fiat 500
ROAD TEST: Fiat 500
Modeled after Fiat’s original 500 from the 60s, this punchy compact car features faux-retro touches like a painted dashboard, chrome highlights and a cute, round shape.
Tent for two from Karana. B2,100 from Equinox.
Winter Camp
Get the kit and enjoy the great outdoors under canvas.
Villa Maroc
Thailand's Top Theme Hotels & Resorts
What’s hot this winter? Apart from the weather and the baht? Ever-increasing design stakes, the exotic kitsch of themed resorts, urban escapes to hip locations and ditching crowded beaches for the...
Alila Luang Prabang
Top New Design-Focused Hotels
Some want luxury, some want local charm—and some want a room that screams, “I was designed by a leading architect.”
Supanniga Home
Upcountry City Escapes
Worried the beaches will be too crowded this winter? They will be. Can’t stand the countryside and don’t want to be the only one stuck in Bangkok this holiday season? Head to one of these cities and...
Phokeethra Country Club
Green Neighbors
The finest fairways in Southeast Asia for when you tire of Thai tees.
Harbin
Asian Dates
Regional highlights for the next three months, from groundbreaking arts affairs to epic beach parties like no other on earth.
Sub-Ø-G
Travel Light
Avoid excess baggage with this featherweight luggage.
Holiday Helpers
A volunteer vacation can be the best adventure you’ve ever had.
Trends in Travel
BK consults the experts to find out what will be hot—and not—in 2007
Hitcherhiker Ludovic Hubler
In Europe, many students go traveling after graduating from university. Most of them visit places they’ve always wanted to see, sniff the scent of the big, wide world for a while and then return to...
Lonely Planet's Tony and Maureen Wheeler
In 1972, Tony and Maureen Wheeler completed a backpacking trip overland from England to Australia. When they arrived, friends asked them where they had gone along the way, where they had stopped and...
Charity Travelers Jo Huxster and Antonia (Ants) Bolinbroke-Kent
On May 28, Jo Huxster and Antonia (Ants) Bolinbroke-Kent kicked off an intercontinental tuk tuk expedition from Bangkok to Brighton, England, to raise funds for Mind, a mental health charity based in...
Taking the Plunge
Your essential guide for getting wet, staying dry or whatever else you’d like to do during Songkran this year.