Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia — October 2017

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Chef Koichi Sugano

serving at Kan

restaurant in Tokyo.

Photographed by

Shinsuke

Matsukawa.

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Secret Kingdom

The ancient Burmese

kingdom of Mrauk-U

is filled with majestic

temples and a

little-known history

buried in the jungle.

By Ron Gluckman.

Photographed by

Jonathan Pozniak

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Inventive Izakaya

Tokyo’s chefs are

rethinking the izakaya

in mad, delicious

ways. Diana Hubbell

joins an epic food

crawl through the

best of the old and the

new. Photographed by

Shinsuke Matsukawa

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Fields of Vision

A castle in rural

Sweden has become

a destination for

contemporary art.

By Gisela Williams.

Photographed by

Chris Tonnesen

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This Green World

To Costa Ricans,

pura vida is about

embracing a laid-

back, positive outlook

and living in harmony

with the natural

world. By Adam Leith

Gollner. Photographed

by William Hereford

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