The fascinating trend of putting together an expensive wedding book is a big deal in China. You see soon-to-be-brides are dotted like confetti all over the city in various outfits, poses and back drops. Here’s what it’s all about – and how much it’ll set you back!
Asia
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Shanghai: brides, photos and the weird wedding book
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Shopping in Shanghai to die for!
I’ve just had the most amazing shopping tour in Shanghai, all arranged for me by Shanghai Shopping Tours and ended up with more stuff than I could fit into my suitcases for under $600. Have a read and check out how CHEAP it is.
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Newlook Club Med Phuket offers earlybird deal
Club Med Phuket is undergoing a makeover to reopen next year with a new level of elegance. But until the end of October they are having an earlybird special for travel until April next year saving you between $500 and $1000 per person! Read on to find out what to expect…
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Eat at Cabbages and Condoms, Thailand
Lunching at the Cabbages and Condoms Restaurant in Thailand’s northern most city of Chiang Rai was an experience I was not sure I was totally up for. I was on a whistle-stop three-day tour from Bangkok to the Golden Triangle where Thailand borders Laos and Cambodia. My itinerary indicated the drive from Chiang Mai to [...]
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Playing chess like a local in Bintan
When travelling this mortal coil to soak up the wonders of different countries and experience new cultures, it’s not often you get to truly sit down and hang with the locals. In Bintan I got that chance and it was hilarious. It didn’t matter that I couldn’t speak Bahasa Indonesia to the bunch of guys [...]
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Check out the swanky Club Med Bali
I’ve stayed at two Club Med resorts now – Bintan and Bali – and I can promise, hand-on-heart, there is no hi-de-hi about these all-inclusive and very swanky resorts like the stigma of the 80s would have you believe. And by all-inclusive I’m talking cocktails 24/7 and 2 or 3 different restaurants to choose from [...]
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Charity cycle through Vietnam for the kids
Looking for a holiday with a difference? A holiday that actually means something? Join this charity bike ride through Vietnam for Variety! Adventurous travellers can support Variety – The Children’s Charity by signing up for a unique holiday experience to Vietnam with actor Shane Cortese in April 2011. The Variety Cycle Vietnam trip is an [...]
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The hugest shopping malls in the world
If the pre-Christmas shopping charge hasn’t put you off blitzing busy shopping malls for a bargain, then check out this list of some of the world’s biggest, most over-whelming, malls from Hotel Resort Insider: West Edmonton Mall, Alberta, Canada. This colossal mall occupies 350,000 square metres with 800 stores, and employs more than 23,000 people. [...]
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Worst ever massage from belching masseuse
I truly thought I might perish at the hands of my brutal Taiwanese masseuse! I was in Taiwan on a decadent Spa Press Trip. But this treatment took the cake… I’ve never had an all over body massage (and I mean all over). And certainly not an all over body massage by a Taiwanese woman [...]
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Anyone for elephant polo? Yes really.
If it’s true that the elephant never forgets, then every March in Thailand the theory is put to the test as the huge proboscideans play in a polo tournament – and try to remember the rules. Several international teams compete in the Kings Cup Elephant Polo Tournament conjuring up images of Harry Potter’s quidditch matches. [...]
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