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...there aren't many to be seen walking about on the streets; and the closest most tourists get to Aboriginal life is at a museum, or a didgeridoo purchased at a souvenir shop. That's why Gunya Titjikala (gunya.com.au) is such a welcome initiative. The country's first Aboriginal resort enables guests to live in a real desert community, absorbing local traditions firsthand...
...hosts are the 300 Aborigines of Titjikala, a far-flung settlement in the Northern Territory, comprising members of the Arrente, Luritja and Pitjantjatjara tribal groups. The resort is a joint venture between them and Gunya Tourism, a firm set up to promote indigenous tourism experiences. Half of the profits go to the Titjikala Foundation's health and education programs, and the camp employs only local tribespeople. The objectives are cultural interaction and Aboriginal self-sufficiency, says Mark Provost, Gunya Tourism's managing director: "In remote areas such as Titjikala, tourism offers the prospect of economic independence and eliminates a sole...
...Could anything be more romantic than strolling barefoot at surf's edge with your beloved? Well, yes, according to Marissa Woods, the director of romance at the Las Ventanas al Paraiso resort at the tip of Mexico's Baja Peninsula. She could enhance your romantic tryst by the Sea of Cortez by raking an enormous heart into the sand and perhaps, when you return from the beach, you'll find your bedroom decorated with 1,000 red roses. Woods can order up a white stallion to deliver a wedding ring or strolling classical guitarists to set the mood. She also...
This luxury resort is committed to improving the standard of living for residents of the Yasawa Islands by providing medical clinics, building secondary schools and helping create budget resorts and businesses owned and operated by villagers...
...resolve comes to him. His performance last week was that of a man in full, an act of deftly judged juggling between directing his government's response to the bombings and trying to make sure the G-8 meeting of world leaders he was chairing at Gleneagles, a bucolic resort in Scotland, came to the ambitious conclusion on relieving African poverty that he has been straining to achieve for a year. After the bombings, he plowed through several press conferences, as well as emergency meetings of a Cabinet committee and eleventh-hour bargaining sessions at Gleneagles from which he secured...