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...Four Seasons Langkawi, tel: (60-4) 950 8888. The design of this resort has a very Malaysian sense of place and incorporates elements from the country's Muslim heritage. Arabic tiling turns the large bathrooms into approximations of Turkish hammams. The resort has gorgeous views of the Andaman Sea, and all its airy rooms open on to covered balconies. The main restaurant, Ikan Ikan, is housed in a recreation of a limas, or traditional Malay home, and serves fresh seafood alongside Mediterranean pastas, bouillabaisse and linguine. Serai (meaning lemongrass) is the hotel's other dining option and works rather better...
...direct flights to the island. It's now possible to spend an evening dining in one of the island's finest Thai restaurants and have the whole room and staff to yourself. The Phuket Tourist Association (PTA) estimates that in January and February alone?peak season on Thailand's Andaman coast?the drop-off in tourist arrivals will cost the island $500 million, or almost double the property damage inflicted by the tsunami. "It's all gone to hell in a handbasket," says James R. Batt, managing director of Laguna Phuket, the island's largest resort, which never closed despite...
...uncontrollable sobs. They are collecting bodies from the normally green lawn in front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans--at just one collection point in the city, authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Fifty miles south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that...
...Island, lies the Racha. Fronting one of Thailand's most pristine beaches, this Sanctuary resort boasts 70 villas. Some of these sit right on the sand, just meters from crystal-clear water, but the informed choice is villa 103?perched on a hill with a commanding view of the Andaman Sea. Room rates begin from $170 a night...
...eponymous resort. Fronting one of Thailand's most pristine beaches, the Racha boasts 70 luxurious villas. Some of these sit right on the sand, just meters from crystal-clear water, but the informed choice is villa 103 - perched on a hill with a commanding view of the Andaman Sea. Rooms cost from $170 a night. (For more details go to www.sanctuaryresorts.com...