Travel + Leisure Asia - 09.2019

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82 SEPTEMBER 2019 / TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM a small country to deal with. A devastating earthquake in 2015 only piled on the pa ...

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Late afternoon at the Hindu site of Shree Pashupatinath Temple; a boutique selling scarves and clothes ...

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Street art of a Hindi movie star on a side road in Pat an; a t able set for one of their signature comm ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / SEPTEMBER 2019 85 we are in danger of being sucked into a hugely pleasurable vortex that many travele ...

THE FIGHT TO PROTECT NORTHEASTERN ARGENTINA'S IBERÁ WETLANDS PITTED CONSERVATIONISTS AGAINST RANCHERS, NATURALISTS AGAINST GAUCH ...

Gauchos ride through a channel in the Iberá wetlands, a 13,000-square- kilometer nature reserve. ...

O N THAT SAND TRACK, the world seemed reborn, as if the flood waters were just receding. Tenuous tongues of land emerged between ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / SEPTEMBER 2019 89 lives about six hours away,” she said. “A small estancia. He is an old gaucho. He k ...

cloth shoes the gauchos ride in; a pair of bombachas, or baggy gaucho pants; and a distressed-looking vest. In the evening there ...

I could have spent a week at Rincón without exhausting its possibilities. I went trail biking and horseback riding. I ventured o ...

IN CORRIENTES, ALL BOYS GROW UP WANTING TO BE COWBOYS ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / SEPTEMBER 2019 93 The living room of the Hostería Rincón del Socorro, an estancia converted into an e ...

conservationists Kris and Douglas Tompkins bought the San Alonso estate; three years later they acquired the 12,000-hectare Rinc ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / SEPTEMBER 2019 95 The jaguars were the keystone species in Iberá, Maita explained. These charismatic ...

nostrils above the water, breathing with a deep snorting rasp—suddenly a strange aquatic creature. Hanging on to her tail, I sai ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / SEPTEMBER 2019 97 Argentina Buenos Aires Hostería San Alonso Hostería Rincón del Socorro PARANÁ RIVER ...

PHOTOGRAPHED BY ALEX CRÉTEY SYSTERMANS On a journey to a far-flung corner of Zambia, HORATIO CLARE goes in search of the shoebil ...

Sunset in South Luangwa National Park. OPPOSITE: A shoebill takes flight over the Bangweulu Wetlands. ...

read the e-mail. The sender, a naturalist named Rod Tether who was to be my guide in Zambia, added: “You may want to bring along ...