Asia

Tokyo

🇯🇵 Japan

Japan's dazzling capital, where neon-lit skyscrapers meet ancient temples and world-leading cuisine. Tokyo blends cutting-edge modernity with serene gardens…

Kyoto

🇯🇵 Japan

Japan's ancient imperial capital of serene temples, geisha districts and exquisite kaiseki cuisine.

Bali

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Indonesia's "Island of the Gods", famed for terraced rice paddies, surf beaches and Hindu temples. Bali offers spiritual serenity, lush jungle and world-class…

Singapore

🇸🇬 Singapore

A gleaming garden city-state where futuristic architecture rises among tropical greenery. Singapore is renowned for its hawker cuisine, Marina Bay skyline and…

Bangkok

🇹🇭 Thailand

Thailand's electric capital of glittering temples, floating markets and legendary street food. Bangkok mixes riverside serenity with a famously vibrant…

Dubai

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

A dazzling desert metropolis of record-breaking skyscrapers, luxury shopping and golden beaches. Dubai fuses ultramodern architecture with Arabian heritage and…

Hong Kong

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a vertical city of neon skylines, dim sum institutions and Michelin-starred dining, where the view of Victoria Harbour from a hotel suite is a…

Maldives

🇲🇻 Maldives

An Indian Ocean archipelago of turquoise lagoons and private-island resorts — the definition of barefoot luxury.

Seoul

🇰🇷 South Korea

South Korea's dynamic capital, where royal palaces sit beside K-pop, tech and buzzing markets. Seoul blends ancient hanok villages with a relentless…

Phuket

🇹🇭 Thailand

Thailand's largest island, ringed by Andaman-Sea beaches, clifftop resorts and a lively old town.

Abu Dhabi

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

The elegant capital of the UAE, home to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. It balances Corniche beaches, cultural landmarks and refined…

Doha

🇶🇦 Qatar

Qatar's futuristic Gulf capital of gleaming skyscrapers, the Museum of Islamic Art and the traditional Souq Waqif.

Osaka

🇯🇵 Japan

Japan's spirited kitchen, famed for its street food, castle and warm, outgoing character. Osaka pairs a buzzing nightlife with easy access to Kyoto and Nara.

Chiang Mai

🇹🇭 Thailand

The cultural heart of northern Thailand, ringed by misty mountains and hundreds of temples. Chiang Mai is known for its old-city charm, night bazaars and Lanna…

Samarkand

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

A jewel of the ancient Silk Road, dazzling with the turquoise domes and mosaics of the Registan. Samarkand is one of Central Asia's most spectacular historic…

Cambodia

🇰🇭 Cambodia

Gateway to the temples of Angkor, Cambodia enchants with jungle-clad ruins and warm hospitality. Siem Reap pairs the wonder of Angkor Wat with a lively…

Kathmandu

🇳🇵 Nepal

Nepal's spiritual capital in the shadow of the Himalayas, rich with pagodas, stupas and Durbar squares. Kathmandu is the vibrant gateway to the world's highest…

Muscat

🇴🇲 Oman

Oman's serene coastal capital framed by mountains, blending grand mosques, forts and pristine Arabian Sea beaches.

Jaipur

🇮🇳 India

India's rose-pink Rajasthani capital of maharaja palaces, hilltop forts and vibrant bazaars.

Hakone & Mount Fuji

🇯🇵 Japan

Ninety minutes from Tokyo, Hakone and the Fuji Five Lakes form Japan's classic onsen escape: volcanic valleys, cedar forests and Lake Ashi framed by views of…

Okinawa

🇯🇵 Japan

Okinawa is Japan's subtropical archipelago, where coral lagoons, white-sand beaches and the heritage of the Ryukyu Kingdom meet a laid-back island pace. Its…

Niseko & Hokkaido

🇯🇵 Japan

Niseko is Japan's most celebrated powder-snow destination, where the volcanic cone of Mount Yotei watches over slopes blessed with some of the lightest…

Nara & Kanazawa

🇯🇵 Japan

Nara, Japan's first permanent capital, pairs UNESCO-listed temples, the Great Buddha of Todai-ji and the free-roaming deer of Nara Park with a new generation…

Hiroshima & the Seto Inland Sea

🇯🇵 Japan

Hiroshima pairs the profound legacy of its Peace Memorial Park with a lively food scene, the vermilion floating gate of Miyajima and a new generation of…

Beijing

🇨🇳 China

Beijing pairs imperial grandeur — the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace — with a fast-moving contemporary scene of art, design and…

Shanghai

🇨🇳 China

Shanghai is China's glittering gateway, where the Art Deco façades of the Bund face the neon skyline of Pudong across the Huangpu River. For the luxury…

Guangzhou & Shenzhen

🇨🇳 China

Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the twin powerhouses of the Pearl River Delta, pair centuries of Cantonese culture and cuisine with some of the most futuristic…

Chengdu

🇨🇳 China

Chengdu, the laid-back capital of Sichuan, pairs teahouse rituals, giant pandas and one of the world's great culinary traditions with a fast-rising skyline of…

Hangzhou & Suzhou

🇨🇳 China

Hangzhou's West Lake and its tea-clad hills have inspired poets and emperors for a millennium, while Suzhou's canals and UNESCO-listed classical gardens embody…

Xi’an

🇨🇳 China

Xi'an, China's ancient capital and the eastern gateway of the Silk Road, layers more than 3,000 years of history behind intact Ming Dynasty walls, from the…

Sanya & Hainan

🇨🇳 China

Sanya, on the southern tip of tropical Hainan Island, is China's answer to the Riviera: a string of crescent bays — Yalong, Haitang, Tufu, Clear Water — lined…

Guilin & Yangshuo

🇨🇳 China

Guilin and Yangshuo are the heart of China's most celebrated landscape, where the Li River winds between thousands of limestone karst peaks, misty rice paddies…

Lijiang & Yunnan

🇨🇳 China

Lijiang's UNESCO-listed Old Town of cobbled lanes, canals and Naxi courtyards sits beneath the glaciers of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, gateway to the Tibetan…

Macau

🇲🇴 Macau

Macau fuses Portuguese heritage with the most spectacular integrated resorts in Asia, from the UNESCO-listed old town on the peninsula to the neon-lit palaces…

Taipei

🇹🇼 Taiwan

Taipei pairs a fast-moving skyline crowned by Taipei 101 with temples, night markets and some of Asia's finest Chinese dining, all framed by green mountains…

Sun Moon Lake, Taroko & Southern Taiwan

🇹🇼 Taiwan

Beyond Taipei, Taiwan unfolds into misty highland lakes, marble gorges and a sun-drenched port city in the south. From Kerry Hill's minimalist masterpiece on…

Busan

🇰🇷 South Korea

Busan, South Korea's vibrant second city, pairs the sweeping beaches of Haeundae and Gwangalli with a skyline of glass towers, a celebrated film festival and…

Jeju Island

🇰🇷 South Korea

Jeju Island, South Korea's volcanic holiday isle, pairs UNESCO-listed lava landscapes and the slopes of Hallasan with a mild climate, black-rock coves and a…

Koh Samui

🇹🇭 Thailand

Koh Samui, Thailand's coconut-palm island in the Gulf of Thailand, wraps jungle hills in a ring of white-sand bays such as Chaweng, Lamai, Bophut and Choeng…

Krabi & Phang Nga

🇹🇭 Thailand

Krabi and Phang Nga share Thailand's most dramatic Andaman coastline: limestone karsts rising from emerald water, hidden coves reached only by longtail boat…

Hua Hin

🇹🇭 Thailand

Hua Hin is Thailand's original royal seaside retreat, where King Rama VII built his summer palace in the 1920s and Bangkok society still escapes for long…

Chiang Rai & the Golden Triangle

🇹🇭 Thailand

Chiang Rai and the Golden Triangle, where Thailand meets Laos and Myanmar along the Mekong, offer Northern Thailand's most serene luxury escape: misty hill…

Hanoi

🇻🇳 Vietnam

Vietnam's thousand-year-old capital blends French colonial boulevards, the labyrinthine Old Quarter and serene lakes with one of Asia's most exciting food…

Ho Chi Minh City

🇻🇳 Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City, still Saigon to those who love it, pairs French-colonial boulevards and Art Deco landmarks with a restless skyline of glass towers and…

Hoi An & Da Nang

🇻🇳 Vietnam

Hoi An's lantern-lit UNESCO old town and Da Nang's 30 km of white-sand coastline form Central Vietnam's most polished luxury corridor, framed by the Marble…

Phu Quoc

🇻🇳 Vietnam

Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island in the Gulf of Thailand, pairs long white-sand beaches and a jungle-clad national park with pepper farms, pearl farms and…

Nha Trang & Cam Ranh

🇻🇳 Vietnam

Nha Trang's palm-lined bay and the pristine sands of Long Beach in neighbouring Cam Ranh form Vietnam's premier resort coast, backed by mountains and dotted…

Ha Long Bay & Northern Vietnam

🇻🇳 Vietnam

Ha Long Bay's limestone karsts rising from emerald water are northern Vietnam's signature spectacle, best admired from a private island resort or an overnight…

Phnom Penh

🇰🇭 Cambodia

Cambodia's riverside capital blends French colonial elegance, gilded Khmer landmarks such as the Royal Palace and Silver Pagoda, and a fast-rising skyline…

Luang Prabang

🇱🇦 Laos

Luang Prabang, the former royal capital of Laos, unfolds on a peninsula between the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, its UNESCO-listed old town a serene mosaic of…

Vientiane

🇱🇦 Laos

Vientiane is Southeast Asia's most laid-back capital, where French colonial villas, gilded temples and the golden That Luang stupa sit along a slow bend of the…

Yangon

🇲🇲 Myanmar

Yangon, Myanmar's former capital, layers gilded pagodas crowned by the Shwedagon over one of Southeast Asia's finest ensembles of colonial architecture, leafy…

Bagan & Inle Lake

🇲🇲 Myanmar

Bagan's plain of more than 2,000 temples and stupas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site beside the Ayeyarwady River, is one of Asia's great sunrise spectacles, best…

Kuala Lumpur

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur is a heady blend of soaring glass towers, colonial-era landmarks and vibrant street food, anchored by the iconic Petronas Twin Towers and the…

Langkawi

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea and a UNESCO Global Geopark, where ten-million-year-old rainforest tumbles down to secluded…

Penang

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Penang pairs the UNESCO-listed shophouses, clan temples and celebrated street food of George Town with the palm-fringed beaches of Batu Ferringhi on Malaysia's…

Sabah & Borneo

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Sabah, on the northern tip of Borneo, pairs the jungle-clad slopes of Mount Kinabalu with the coral islands of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park, all within…

Jakarta

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Jakarta is Indonesia's sprawling, energetic capital, where gleaming towers along Sudirman and Thamrin rise beside the Dutch-colonial old town of Kota Tua and…

Lombok & the Gili Islands

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Lombok is the Bali of thirty years ago: empty white-sand bays, the volcanic silhouette of Mount Rinjani and a handful of exceptional resorts strung along the…

Yogyakarta & Central Java

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Yogyakarta is Java's cultural heart, a sultanate city of batik workshops, gamelan and the living Kraton palace, with the UNESCO temples of Borobudur and…

Labuan Bajo & Komodo

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Labuan Bajo, on the western tip of Flores, is the gateway to Komodo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of dragon-inhabited islands, pink-sand beaches…

Manila

🇵🇭 Philippines

Manila is a sprawling, energetic capital where the Spanish colonial heritage of Intramuros meets the glass towers of Makati and Bonifacio Global City. Luxury…

Cebu & Mactan

🇵🇭 Philippines

Cebu pairs a lively, history-rich city — the cradle of Philippine Christianity, with Magellan's Cross and Fort San Pedro — with the resort island of Mactan…

Boracay

🇵🇭 Philippines

Boracay is the Philippines' most celebrated island escape, famed for the powder-white sand of White Beach and the calmer, more secluded coves of its northern…

Palawan & El Nido

🇵🇭 Philippines

Palawan is the Philippines' last frontier: a limestone-and-lagoon archipelago where El Nido's Bacuit Bay, the private isles off Coron and Roxas and the…

Siargao & Bohol

🇵🇭 Philippines

Siargao is the Philippines' surf capital, a teardrop island of coconut groves, tidal lagoons and the famous Cloud 9 break, where a handful of barefoot-luxury…

Bandar Seri Begawan

🇧🇳 Brunei

Bandar Seri Begawan is the serene capital of oil-rich Brunei, where the gold-domed Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque rises beside the Kampong Ayer stilt village and…

New Delhi

🇮🇳 India

India's capital layers Mughal tombs, Lutyens' imperial avenues and a fast-moving contemporary scene into one sprawling, endlessly rewarding metropolis. For the…

Mumbai

🇮🇳 India

India's financial and film capital, Mumbai blends colonial-era landmarks, Art Deco seafront promenades and a frenetic creative energy. Its finest hotels…

Udaipur

🇮🇳 India

Udaipur, the 'City of Lakes', is Rajasthan's most romantic destination, where white marble palaces rise from the shimmering waters of Lake Pichola against the…

Jodhpur & Jaisalmer

🇮🇳 India

Jodhpur, the Blue City beneath the mighty Mehrangarh Fort, and Jaisalmer, the golden sandstone citadel rising from the Thar Desert, form Rajasthan's most…

Agra

🇮🇳 India

Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, the Red Fort and the abandoned Mughal capital of Fatehpur Sikri, is the emotional heart of India's Golden Triangle. Its finest…

Goa

🇮🇳 India

Goa is India's most seductive coastal escape, where Portuguese heritage, whitewashed churches and spice-scented villages meet a hundred kilometres of…

Kerala

🇮🇳 India

Kerala, India's lush 'God's Own Country', unfolds along the Malabar Coast in a tapestry of palm-fringed backwaters, spice-scented hills and golden Arabian Sea…

Bengaluru

🇮🇳 India

Bengaluru, India's Garden City and technology capital, pairs a mild year-round climate with colonial-era parks, a thriving dining and craft-cocktail scene and…

Chennai & Tamil Nadu

🇮🇳 India

Chennai, the cultural capital of South India, pairs colonial-era landmarks and Carnatic music traditions with a seafront lined by palace hotels and one of the…

Ranthambore & Wildlife Lodges

🇮🇳 India

Ranthambore, in south-eastern Rajasthan, is India's most celebrated tiger reserve, where Bengal tigers roam dry deciduous forest, lakes and the ruins of a…

Rishikesh & the Himalayas

🇮🇳 India

Rishikesh, the yoga capital of the world, sits where the Ganges leaves the Himalayas, its ashrams, suspension bridges and evening aarti ceremonies set against…

Colombo

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Colombo, Sri Lanka's cosmopolitan capital on the Indian Ocean, layers colonial-era grandeur, Buddhist temples and a buzzing food scene along the seafront…

Galle & the South Coast

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Galle's UNESCO-listed Dutch fort anchors Sri Lanka's south coast, a sweep of palm-fringed bays, surf breaks and green headlands running east through Weligama…

Kandy & the Hill Country

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Kandy, the last royal capital of Sri Lanka and home to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, is the gateway to the island's cool, mist-wrapped Hill Country of…

Sigiriya & the Cultural Triangle

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

Sigiriya and the Cultural Triangle hold Sri Lanka's UNESCO-listed heart: the 5th-century Lion Rock fortress, the painted cave temples of Dambulla and the…

Pokhara & Chitwan

🇳🇵 Nepal

Pokhara, gateway to the Annapurna range, pairs the mirror-still waters of Phewa Lake with ridge-top lodges that frame Machhapuchhre at dawn. A short flight to…

Thimphu & Paro

🇧🇹 Bhutan

Bhutan's Paro and Thimphu valleys pair fortress-monasteries and the cliff-hung Tiger's Nest with a national philosophy of Gross National Happiness, and a…

Ulaanbaatar & the Gobi

🇲🇳 Mongolia

Mongolia pairs a fast-modernising capital with some of the emptiest, most dramatic landscapes on earth: Ulaanbaatar's international five-star hotels sit within…

Tashkent & Bukhara

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan's two poles of the Silk Road: Tashkent, the leafy, fast-modernising capital with grand boulevards, a landmark metro and a new skyline of…

Almaty & Astana

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan's two great cities are a study in contrasts: Almaty, the leafy former capital set beneath the snow-capped Tien Shan, with tree-lined boulevards…

Tbilisi

🇬🇪 Georgia

Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, layers Persian-style sulphur bathhouses, carved wooden balconies and Art Nouveau mansions beneath the Narikala fortress, all…

Kakheti & Batumi

🇬🇪 Georgia

Kakheti is Georgia's storied wine country, a landscape of vineyards, monasteries and the Caucasus skyline where eight millennia of qvevri winemaking meet a new…

Yerevan

🇦🇲 Armenia

Yerevan, one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities, pairs pink-tuff boulevards and Soviet-era grandeur with a lively café culture and views of…

Baku

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan

Baku pairs a UNESCO-listed walled Old City with a skyline of glass towers, and its crescent bay is lined by a seafront boulevard that stretches for kilometres…

Ras Al Khaimah & Fujairah

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

Ras Al Khaimah is the UAE's nature-led luxury escape, less than an hour north of Dubai, where Jebel Jais and the Hajar Mountains meet long Gulf beaches…

Nizwa, Musandam & the Interior

🇴🇲 Oman

Beyond Muscat, Oman's interior unfolds from Nizwa's 17th-century fort and Friday livestock souq to the terraced rose gardens of Jabal Akhdar, 2,000 metres up…

Riyadh

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, the fast-transforming capital of Saudi Arabia, pairs a skyline of landmark towers such as Kingdom Centre and Al Faisaliah with the mud-brick UNESCO…

Jeddah & the Red Sea

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

Jeddah is the Kingdom's cosmopolitan gateway on the Red Sea, where the coral-stone houses of UNESCO-listed Al-Balad meet a glittering Corniche of palatial…

AlUla

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

AlUla is an open-air museum of sandstone canyons, palm-filled oases and the Nabataean tombs of Hegra, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its new…

Manama

🇧🇭 Bahrain

Manama, capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain, pairs a 4,000-year-old Dilmun heritage and a labyrinthine old souq with a glittering skyline of island resorts…

Kuwait City

🇰🇼 Kuwait

Kuwait City rises along the Arabian Gulf as a skyline of glass towers, the iconic Kuwait Towers and the Grand Mosque, with the spice-scented lanes of Souq…

Amman

🇯🇴 Jordan

Amman, Jordan's hilltop capital, layers Roman ruins and Ottoman-era stone houses beneath a skyline of sleek modern towers, all wrapped in legendary Levantine…

Dead Sea

🇯🇴 Jordan

At more than 400 metres below sea level, the Jordanian shore of the Dead Sea is the lowest point on earth and one of the world's original spa destinations…

Petra & Wadi Rum

🇯🇴 Jordan

Petra, the rose-red Nabataean city carved into sandstone cliffs, and the Mars-like desert of Wadi Rum form Jordan's most extraordinary pairing, barely two…

Aqaba

🇯🇴 Jordan

Aqaba is Jordan's sun-drenched gateway to the Red Sea, where desert mountains drop into coral reefs of remarkable clarity and the weather stays warm…

Tel Aviv

🇮🇱 Israel

Tel Aviv pairs a sun-soaked Mediterranean coastline with the UNESCO-listed Bauhaus 'White City', a celebrated restaurant scene and the restored Ottoman lanes…

Jerusalem

🇮🇱 Israel

Jerusalem layers three millennia of sacred history behind honey-coloured limestone walls, from the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old…

Eilat, Dead Sea & the Negev

🇮🇱 Israel

Israel's deep south unfolds as a sequence of otherworldly landscapes: the coral reefs and year-round sun of Eilat on the Red Sea, the mineral-rich shores of…

Beirut

🇱🇧 Lebanon

Beirut is the Mediterranean's most resilient capital, where Ottoman mansions, French-mandate boulevards and glass towers meet a fabled dining and nightlife…