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...Constance Hotels & Resorts, an Indian Ocean hospitality giant, recently took over two of the island’s best beach resorts, and work is under way to extend the airport runway in order to accommodate aircraft...
...Sprawled across 7,300 acres, the resort has two main lift bases in Park City itself and a third at the purpose-built Canyons village....
...By the mid-19th century, steamboats and railway lines carried the first tourists to fashionable resorts in Saxon Switzerland....
...I was keen to come partly because there seems to be a renaissance in the big American resorts. Ocean House in Rhode Island, established 1868, has just been renovated at a cost of $146mn....
...Now comes Naviva, at the edge of the Punta Mita peninsula in Mexico, which opened last December as a complement to the Four Seasons Resort at Punta Mita....
...lakepowellhouseboating.com November Big wave watching, Portugal November marks the start of big wave season at Nazaré, Portugal — and these are among the biggest in the world, the result of an underwater canyon...
...From some far-off, unseen settlement a muezzin’s amplified call to prayer echoes frailly up the canyon....
...Who Compass House, Utah, $19.5mn Where On White Pine Canyon Road in Utah’s Park City Mountain Resort, a 50-minute drive from Salt Lake City international airport....
...For half an hour or so, as we headed up the steepest part of Crete’s Rouvas Gorge, the canyon’s walls closed in on both sides....
...Far away towards the south were the resorts of Magaluf and S’Arenal — hidden under a pall of sea mist and so far removed from these rugged mountains that they might as well have belonged to another country...
...Sun Valley ski resort is five minutes away by car....
...I also recommend taking a slow cruise along North Indian Canyon Drive at sunset, when the resolutely turning blades are silhouetted against the apricot sky....
...The beach resorts there also still have a faintly hippy vibe from the 60s when they were off-grid destinations for many young Europeans looking for sun and low rents....
...Who Engel & Völkers Coastal estate, Sardinia, Italy, €14mn Where In the small resort of Porto Rafael, on the north-east coast of Sardinia....
...A few miles downstream, where powerful currents are compressed between canyon walls, it becomes a cauldron of white water....
...For the past five or so years, the California-based Auberge Resorts Collection has been at work on this site (and restoring the chapel) to create Bishop’s Lodge, a resort that will open this year and would...
...I was raised in a country environment, like a dirt road kind of country environment in Los Angeles in a canyon. I was not raised in a fancy house at all....
...Details: Aristi Mountain Resort has double rooms from about €140 per night....
...Today is day one of what is generally considered a six-day, 190-mile mountain bike ride from the ski resort of Brian Head to Escalante, a small town surrounded by the 1.9 million untamed acres of the Grand...
...In place of dinner chatter, I listen to the rush of the Mossman River moving through metamorphic granite canyons to the Coral Sea. Instead of Range Rovers, kayaks list on the bank....
...Start in Zürich at 1.15am and arrive in the ski resort of Zermatt anything from 10 to 18 hours later....
...Drayton Manor Resort, the park’s new operator owned by Looping, told the FT: “Our thoughts are with the Jannath family and all those affected by the tragedy at this time.”...
...And you heard some of those silences were as cavernous as the Grand Canyon, weren’t they (laughter)? It’s just awful, awful to listen to....
...My giant rental pick-up truck bounces over mud canyons as I pull up at the base station — a big tent next to a shipping container....
...Maya Train officials say they are in negotiations with residents and that expropriation of land for the train is a last resort they hope to avoid....
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