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...Then, in the early afternoon, you turn left again, into the desert....
...The five-night circuit begins and ends at Lama’s family home, The Happy House, where guests can sink into yoga, massages, delicious food and local monastery visits....
...At the six-day, 155-mile Marathon des Sables in the Sahara desert that I completed in 2019, we carried our own food and equipment and slept on the rock-strewn desert in open-sided Berber tents....
...Few things compare to the life-affirming rush of crossing the finishing line....
...In the evenings, I head past the plunge pool for a massage....
...At this month’s Whitney Biennial, North Carolina-born Lucas Blalock exhibits an eight-metre billboard entitled “Donkeys Crossing the Desert” in which three donkeys are depicted: one is a photographic image...
...There’s a pretty Lilliputian spa with dedicated freestanding pavilions for Thai massages and a fledgling garden of herbs and flowers....
...‘They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else’: A History of the Armenian Genocide, by Ronald Grigor Suny, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35 If you read one book about the 1915 Armenian genocide...
...Even the landscape in the north is distinct, with rolling hills and spectacular mountains that contrast sharply with the flat deserts of the southwest....
...Which probably makes breast massage a bargain: Ms Wu promises guaranteed milk flow – for only Rmb500 maximum per mother. Additional reporting by Yan Zhang in Shanghai...
...The house was built in an L shape around the swimming pool with concrete walkways crossing the water....
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