What we are reading

some of the best travel stories we read over the last few days

• The Independent: Six Himalayan Retreats
• Australian Gourmet Traveller has a nice list with Bali’s best restaurants
• The Australian reviews the Aman New Delhi
• Resource Magazine reviews Amanpuri
• Velvet Escape visits the Fish Spa in Kuala Lumpur, our take on this experience is here
• CNNGo: 9 great places to be a recluse
• Get in Travel: 15 spectacular skylines around the world
• Velvet Escape: the Hong Kong skyline by day and night
• Wild Junket with 7 of the best trekking destinations
• WSJ: Hong Kong’s hidden cafes
• The National with a Top 10 hotel pools list
• The Telegraph reviews some of the best travel apps
• Telegraph: Hong Kong scores a perfect 10 as a place to live
• The Travel Editor goes for lunch at Amankila
• The Frog + Princess Blog has a nice post about Angkor with lots of great pictures
• Bombastic Life checks in the W Seoul
• CNNGo: 10 things you haven’t seen in Chiang Mai
• A new bar opens in Causeway Bay
• Merian stellt das Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong vor
• Die Welt über Deutschlands modernstes Reisebüro

 

What we are reading

catching up, some of the most interesting stories we came across over the last, well, 2 months

• Karla Cripps of CNNGo visits the Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi
• The Australian: Aman New Delhi turns one
• CNNGo features six hotel  restaurants with incredible views, including Anantara Seminyak, Amansara and the Datai
• Speaking of the Datai, here is a report over at Sassy Hong Kong
• HK Magazine with an excellent list of the best alfresco bars in Hong Kong
• Huffington Post: Melanie Nayer inside the World’s tallest hotel
• The Independent: 24-hour room service: Alila Diwa, Goa
• A nice collection of first impressions from Hong Kong
• The Hotel Design blog with some gorgeous pictures of Les Suites Orient Bund Shanghai
• CNNGo’s Best Eats awards for 2010 for Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai, Bangkok, Singapore and Mumbai
• The Guardian explores an important question: Why is outdoor gear so ugly?
• USA Today: How can you tell which TripAdvisor reviews to trust?
• National Geographic Traveler: The Tap Dance of Tipping
• CNNGo: 24 hours at Changi airport