I admit, it sounds too worthy to be fun. If you respond to the usual "where are you going on holiday this year" question with "Oh, I’m walking with nomads", you sound like a smug do-gooder. Yet there was nothing po-faced or forced about our trek in southern Morocco, writes Isabel Choat.
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/ 15 December 2004
"So, what’s the catch?" asked a friend when I told her about Ilha Grande, a beautiful island just off Brazil’s Costa Verde (Green Coast). She had a point. Blessed with jungly hills, 106 sandy beaches, blue lagoons and bays teeming with tropical fish, it’s the sort of place you assume must be prohibitively expensive or impossible to get to. But you’d be wrong.
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/ 27 February 2004
"Considering it’s the world’s biggest metropolis, Mexico City is surprisingly short on trendy hotels. The super-minimalist Habita was hailed as a trailblazer when it opened in October 2000; but it remained the city’s only design hotel for the next three years". Mexico is the latest destination for chic hotels. Isabel Choat chooses five of the best.