Calatagan, Batangas, the Philippines
April 29 – 30, 2013
This is closer to the water than beachfront. Obviously Maldives-inspired, Stilts Calatagan Beach Resort boasts of eight cottages perched on stilts out in the sea. Why bother with a beach when you can just jump off your bed to the crystal waters of West Philippine Sea?
Shanghai, China
February 20, 2012
China showed some cracks. And we could see a continent half a world away through them.
Back in the era of steamers, when Westerners sailed into Shanghai through the Huangpu River, they were greeted not by ancient pagodas, but by a far more familiar sight – the decidedly European skyline of Old World buildings at the city’s iconic waterfront, the Bund (Waitan in Chinese).
