PHOTOGRAPHY JAMES FLORIO (TIERRA CHILOÉ) & RODNEY MACUJA (PINK MASK) ILLUSTRATION LARA PORTER
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Coming soon to Australia’s newest
wilderness walk are Australia’s
newest lodges. High-end hiking
outfit Tasmanian Walking Company
will open two shelters along the
Three Capes Track when it
launches its guided four-day,
46-kilometre walks late this year.
The solar- and wind-powered
lodges, at Surveyor’s Cove and
Munro, will sleep 14 guests in seven
rooms on high rotation – the
company plans three departures
a week in peak season. Founded by
former airline chiefs Brett Godfrey
and Geoff Dixon, Tasmanian
Walking Company has the
monopoly on Tasmania’s great
walks; it also operates the Bay
of Fires and Cradle Mountain Huts
walks, as well as Victoria’s Twelve
Apostles Lodge Walk.
taswalkingco.com.auHIGHLY
TUNED
There’s no water involved in
a “sound bath”, and no tub in sight
in the most intriguing spa session
at sea. Guests aboard the new
ultra-luxe Seabourn Encore can be
lulled into a deeply meditative
state by powerful sound-wave
vibrations emitted from crystal
bowls “played” by the spa’s
“mindful living coach”, one of many
surprises in the ship’s innovative
spa and wellness program.
seabourn.comBEAUTY SLEEP
REMOTE CONTROL
Among the out-of-the-way places
we’re eyeing most carefully this year
is Madagascar, land of lemurs, which
has its first five-star lodge opening
mid-year. Called Miavana, it’s on
Nosy Ankao off the island’s north
coast, and its 14 villas and wildlife
sanctuary will be accessible only by
chopper. After a year-long renovation,
the Tierra Chiloé Hotel & Spa off the
coast of Chile reopens in July with
doubled capacity to 24 rooms and
the wonders of the remote Chiloé
Archipelago on its doorstep. And
Ritz-Carlton scales new heights on
the Tibetan Plateau with the opening
later this year of its first all-villa resort
near UNESCO-listed Jiuzhaigou, the
Valley of the Nine Fortified Villages.
timeandtideafrica.com; tierrahotels.com;
ritzcarlton.comPassport? Boarding pass? Eye mask? Check,
check and check. Savvy travellers never leave
home without an eye mask, essential kit on planes,
trains and in all those hotel rooms with flimsy
drapes. Snooze in style with masks trimmed
with lace, hand-stitched in satin, and woven
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