An island in the Caribbean born of dreams… You might call it kitsch when the emotions get out of hand and the longing for a distant country becomes overpowering. But hardly anyone can escape the magic and magic of a paradisiacal island, and when a holidaymaker in Barbados sees the sun sink into the firmament on one of the wonderful beaches and the fireworks of...
In 1890, the British writer Rudyard Kipling wrote longingly about Myanmar, the place where the flying fish play in the bay, palm trees sway in the wind and the temple bells call the wanderlust-sick Englishman back to the tropical idyll. The Southeast Asian country has also been opening up to Western visitors for years and offers unique treasures away from mass...