Saturday, May 14, 2011

SLEEP BOUTIQUE

You're guaranteed sweet dreams in the world's coolest (and strangest) hotel beds.





Underwater Bed, Conard Maldives Rangali Island, Maldives
Ithaa, the hotel's all glass underwater restaurant, can be converted into a suit subject to availability. Stay 16 ft beneth sea level amongst breathtaking coral reets, and wake up to the indian ocean's kaleidoscopic marine life.
(www.conardhotel.com) 




Floating Bed, Hotel Seven, Paris
Ever dreamt of floating in space? This hotel's Levitation roooms have specially-engineered 'floating beds' that feel like they're suspended in mid-air,
(www.sevenhotelparis.com) 




Ice bed, ICEHOTEL, Sweden
Experience the real Lapland by sleeping in thermal sleeping bags on a bed made of packed ice covered in reindeer skin.
(www.icehotel.com)




Outdoor bed, Loisaba Wilderness, Kenya
The Kiboko Star Bed is perched on a platform overlooking a waterhole and can be wheeled out onto the open deck to optimise wildlife viewing
(www.loisaba.com)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Mountain Highs (See the Himalayas from a different perspective, on a paragliding tour or on new walking trails)




One exhilarating way to scale the peaks with minimum effort is with Himalayan Sky Safaris (www.himalayanskysafaris.com), which launches paragliding trips across the Dhauladhar range, Custom-design your trip or do the 45km glide to Dharamsala, spending the night at White Haven.
Wild front (www.wildfrontiersindia.com) has taken advatages of a new Bhutan-india crossing by introducing a cultural tour on which visitors can walk from the town of Paro (8,300 ft above sea level) to Thrimphu, Wangdue and Trongsa, across the border and on to New Delhi or Mumbai. Bhutan is also one of the five Himalayan countries covered by the Great Himalaya Trail, a 4,500 km route that also takes in Nepal, China and Pakistan. The Nepal section of the trail will launch with guidebook writer and mapper.