TravelLeisureSoutheastAsia-April2018

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62 APRIL 2018 / TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / deals/ FROM TOP: MANDARIN ORIENTAL, SINGAPORE; COURTESY OF BEST WESTERN THOUSAND ISL ...

from the glam Sheraton Grand Macao hotel on the Cotai Strip. The deal includes a night in a Deluxe King or Twin room; buffet bre ...

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Punakha Dzong, the second-oldest temple in Bhutan, page 74. 65 / APIL 2018 / Why this is the year to check in to Shanghai | See ...

A hop, skip and a jump from Pudong, at W Shanghai—The Bund. OPPOSITE: At home among the restored shikumen gated courtyard reside ...

NEW CONCESSIONS THERE’S A ROOM BOOM IN SHANGHAI, WITH NEW, HIGH-END HOTELS OPENING AT A DIZZYING RATE. COUNT AMONG THEM THE HIST ...

Modern Shanghai’s best example of the architectural as political is surely the shikumen. The word literally translates to “stone ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / APRIL 2018 69 FROM FAR LEFT: The historic water tower at the heart of Capella Shanghai; the hotel’s s ...

Looking out from my Executive Deluxe room on the 59th floor of the golden-ribbed St. Regis Shanghai Jingan, I realize I’ve never ...

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Tea time at The St. Regis Shanghai; into The Drawing Room; a moment of reflection in an Executive Deluxe roo ...

It’s fitting that the flashy W brand would commandeer prime position here in the tallest building in Puxi, overlooking the Huang ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / APRIL 2018 73 Seems the joint developers of new luxury-lifestyle complex HKRI Taikoo Hui were laser-f ...

74 APRIL 2018 / TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM Golden light sweeps across the peaks surrounding Thimphu. ...

PHOTOGRAPHS BY SCOTT A. WOODWARD The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which touts itself as the happiest country on earth, is a past ...

standing on the timeworn stone steps of the Gangtey Monastery, an eerily quiet religious complex perched above a misty valley, w ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / APRIL 2018 77 FROM FAR LEFT: A novice monk pores over his studies in Punakha; this is a land shaped b ...

At every turn, it’s e a s y t o d i s a p p e a r into rural Bhutan. ...

TRAVELANDLEISUREASIA.COM / APRIL 2018 79 status as one of the world’s purest and most remote countries, places restrictions on f ...

moment: the Sopsokha region’s first pop-up discotheque had opened that weekend. It was rumored that some village girls trying to ...