Travel+Leisure Southeast Asia – August 2019

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Arriving at the Leela Palace

Udaipur, this year’s favorite hotel in

the world as voted by our readers.

Photographed by Sivan Askayo

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Rule Breaker At

S$450 a head, newly

opened Nordic

restaurant Zén easily

tops the list of most

expensive restaurants

in Singapore—and the

region. Grace Ma

uncovers what the

hype is about. (Hint: A

last-of-its-kind sake is

only the tip of the

rare-foods iceberg).

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Somewhere in the

Cyclades Santorini

may be a star, but as

the island’s iconic

shores get ever busier,

what’s the best way to

uncover an authentic

taste of life in the

Aegean? Marcel

Theroux finds out.

Photographed by

Christopher Kennedy

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On these Ancient

Sands After almost a

decade of political

upheaval, more stable

times—and visitors—

are returning to Egypt.

The country’s ancient

past remains vividly,

gloriously alive in the

monuments of Giza,

Luxor and Aswan.

By Aatish Taseer.

Photographed by

Simon Roberts

August features