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...jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff members are clad in black, and so is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start around $85 a night. Meanwhile, a 30-minute speedboat ride away from Phuket's main town, on Racha 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...
...jumping-off point to the Similan Islands. It's now also home to La Flora, Sanctuary's sleek, 68-room resort. Staff are clad in black, as is much of the property. The style: contemporary Thai. Room rates start at around $85 a night. A 30-minute speedboat ride away from Phuket's main town is Racha Island, and an 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...
...this strange trip into the time-warped world of North Korea. On the right, spiffy, Mao-suited founding father Kim Il Sung surveys a construction site, surrounded by smiling, hard-hatted laborers; on the left, plump and girlishly handsome son Kim Jong Il stands on the deck of a speedboat, surrounded by marines. Visitors then walk through a series of galleries enclosed within a giant red-walled box set up in the museum's hangar-like exhibit space. "It's like entering the cocoon of North Korean reality for a short time," says Koen De Ceuster, a professor at Leiden...
...that he is both an environmental and religious champion, protecting reefs and 300,000 Muslim Maldivians from the twin dangers of global warming and the bikini-clad hordes who crowd the islands' 87 high-end resorts. Today, the 40,000 tourists who fly in every month are met by speedboat taxis moored in a coral lagoon and a banner that reads: "Welcome to the sunny side of life...
HUGH: It finishes in the speedboat...