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However bad it gets, there are some traditions from the old days that Kitty Teixeire refuses to let die. She greets visitors barefoot in a bedraggled sari at the doorless entrance to her collapsing bungalow. But when she serves coffee, she covers her splintered table with a white cloth and pours into what may be the only set of matching cups and saucers for hundreds of kilometers. "It was such a beautiful place," she sighs in her clipped vowels, a gift of her mixed Welsh, Portuguese and Indian blood. "But McCluskieganj just went down and down. Down the drain...
...warm weather meant abandoning the bricklaying or cruising for fares and squatting in the shade of wilting bodhi or neem trees to chat and stoke their suspicion and hatred of their neighboring nation. And for the nations' leaders, India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his New Delhi bungalow and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in his Rawalpindi villa, central air conditioning may have alleviated the high temperatures, but both men were scorched in the searing glare of the showdown, the Pakistani especially. As the world and, more importantly for Musharraf's political future, his countrymen take his measure...
BOHOL ON THE DOWN LOW Paradise had a problem. We were ready to cast off our travel-stained togs when we realized that our rustic island bungalow already had a resident, who was hairy, eight-legged and about the size of a tennis ball. To our relief our uninvited guest eventually scuttled off and by morning was nearly forgotten. All it took for paradise to redeem itself was a short trek up to our resort's restaurant-cum-chill out lounge, a laid-back, thatched hut straight out of the Jungle Book...
FANTASY ISLET For those who like their vacations quiet and their luxury discreet, part of an island in the South China Sea can be rented by the week. Boayan Islet, just off Palawan Island, comes with a staff of six and a speedboat. Home is a palatial wooden bungalow on stilts, the playground a private lagoon, and there are any number of pristine snorkeling holes waiting to be discovered. And the cost? Less than the price of a five-star hotel, say the owners. Check out your very own fantasy isle at chinaseaisland.com...
...military's activities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has meant that until recently many of them were off-limits to foreign visitors. These days?though perhaps not for much longer?it's possible to stay on a deserted island in the Andamans without booking a bungalow through a luxury resort chain. We left for Port Blair, the capital, intending to spend a week on Smith Island. But by the time we made it up to Diglipur,?a 200-km cross-island excursion involving trucks, buses and boats?to catch the ferry, we found that Smith...