Chile -

Elqui Valley

• centrally heated yurt
• star viewing windows
• hotel astronomico elqui domos

2.5 hr drive N of Santiago to COLCHAGUA VALLEY

• 30 wineries incl
• Emiliana Organico Vina Montes (15 Parcela, santa cruz)
• Clos Apalta (Km 4, Camino apalta, santa cruz)
• stay
• Lapostolle Residence www.lapostolle.com $650 incl meals & tours
• eat
• Asador del valle (los boldos, camino isla yaquil, SC) $40 dinner/2

lapland

http://www.kakslauttanen.fi/

• thermo glass walls "igloos" in Finland's arctic wilderness
• northern lights

Indonesia - Aceh

• Aceh Explorer Adventure Tours
• 25 trails, 3 hours to 2N expeditions
• 17 Jln. Panglima nyak makam
• 62/812-698-4216
• acehexplorer.com
• go between May to Sept
• Garuda, Lion Air & Sriwijaya fly to Banda Aceh via Medan
• stay
• Hermes Palace $103 hermespalacehotel.com
• Grand Nanggroe Hotel $55 aceh-hotels.com/Grand_Nanggroe
• Hotel Green Paradise $28 62-651/7411-5541

Laos - Pakse

Pakse (southern Laos)

• Asia's biggest waterfalls
• hill tribe treks
• Bolaven Plateau coffee plantations
• 4 thousand islands archipelago (world heritage)

best time Nov to Feb worst July to Oct

• fly from:
• Vientiane, Luang Prabang, Siem Reap, Bangkok
• stay:
• Champasak Palace Hotel $30
• Pakse Hotel $20
• Hotel Salachampa $25
• Do:
• rent motorbike US$6-8 per day
• the 2 dozen temples--> Wat Luang oldest, old wooden seminary w/carving
• see Wat Phou -->a world heritage site, believed to be birthplace of Khmer civiliation, atop mountain w/views, can stay overnight in Champasak
• eat:
• riverboat restaurant Khem Khong (street 11, on the Mekong River 856-31/213-240)
• Cafe Sinouk (13 South Rd 856/31/213-601)
  

Thailand Pattaya

dusitD2 baraquda pattaya
ultramodern interiors & amenities
swanky restaurant & bar
www.dusit.com

explore Vietnam Can Tho countryside by cycling through the heart of the Mekong Delta through picturesque town of Sa Dec
http://www.victoriahotels-asia.com/eng/hotels-in-vietnam/can-tho-resort

Senegal

Dakar, Senegal.

• Afro Cuban salsa, world jazz, mixed Wolof n French hip hop, zouk, mbalax, performed at just 4u ave cheikh anta diop, pen'art blvd du sud, thiossane (mbalax king youssou n'dour's club).
• Stay hostellerie du chevalier de boufflers or hotel saint louis sun).
• Eat at keur n'deye or pointe des almadies.
• Go for kaay fecc festival in June