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Bali Nights | Bradley Winterton | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

“The witch at Batubulan is only illusion,” said the man in the blue headdress and mauve sarong standing beside me in the temple forecourt. “But here she will be for real”

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Four Moments in Thailand | Bradley Winterton | Thailand, Bangkok, Bangkok

What I remember most fondly of Thailand are a temple and a lake, a river and a ruin, none of them major tourist destinations but all of them replete with a spirit that for me is close to the heart of the country

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Old Macau | Bradley Winterton | China, Macau, Macau

The Macau roads shone glittering in the sunlight, and from behind the islands of Taipa and Coloane emerged a white-sailed junk, like a prima donna making her entrance at the opera

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On Writing the Guidebook | Bradley Winterton | Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara/ Southeast Islands, Bali

Nor will I ever forget sitting and writing, on the spot, words of impassioned rhetoric in praise of the view from the temple of Ulu Watu, while a troupe of sacred monkeys made off up into a tree with my camera

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Saigon: City in the Sun | Bradley Winterton | Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Saigon’s city center now has the best of two worlds - old-fashioned charm and modern glitter - with little of the concrete-block ugliness of the decades that lay between them

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Sailing to Byzantium | Bradley Winterton | Greece, Mainland Greece, Mount Athos

Monasteries stood massive and tranquil among their vegetable gardens, or were perched on cliffs from which great pines reached out into the scented air above waves breaking in silence far below

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Taiwan | Bradley Winterton | Taiwan, Chiayi, Alishan

Gradually the sky lightens, with extraordinary banks of pink and yellow behind you where the lingering clouds have already been touched by the divine rays

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