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There is never a bad time to plan your dream trips, and Asia is full of those fantasy-inducing journeys that live rent-free in our imaginations. Will you wander the lavish palaces of India or trek through the jungle in Borneo or the mountains of Nepal? Perhaps a foodie tour of Southeast Asia is more to your taste (pun intended).
Whether it's history, popular culture, or deep nature that you're after (how about a mix of all three in Vietnam?) A dream trip to Asia awaits.
You haven’t seen luxury until you’ve seen India’s lavish forts and palaces. These are where the world’s most pampered royals lived extraordinary lives defined by ambition and indulgence. Kick off a two-week journey with three atmospheric days wandering Delhi’s tangled bazaars and Mughal forts, mosques and tombs. A five-hour train ride will deliver you to salmon-pink Jaipur – take two days absorbing the majesty of the City Palace, the Hawa Mahal, Amber Palace and Jai Singh II’s extraordinary royal observatory. Four hours south by bus, Bundi’s painted palace and bottomless stepwells are worth a day of investigation, as are the victory towers of mighty Chittorgarh. It’s two hours by train to Udaipur; allow two days to explore its many palaces and to enjoy dinners overlooking Lake Pichola. An overnight bus ride is an efficient way to reach Jodhpur, where you can get pleasurably lost in the maze-like, Brahminblue lanes surrounding Mehrangarh Fort.
For the full Arabian Nights experience, ride the rails to golden Jaisalmer (five to seven hours), adding on two more days for a camel safari into the dunes. It takes a day to reach tigerstalked Ranthambhore National Park by bus and train, and another six hours to reach Agra Fort train station and the wistful wonder that is the Taj Mahal.
Borneo is the stuff of wildlife dreams: a rain- soaked haven for jungle-dwellers big and small, from elephants and rhinos to enigmatic orangutans. The easiest point of entry into this lost world of emerald-green foliage and cocoa-brown rivers is Malaysian Sarawak. Around multicultural Kuching, seven rainforest reserves offer a bumper serving of wildlife and wilderness, including almost guaranteed encounters with proboscis monkeys in Bako National Park. Ready for more?
Bedding down in national park lodges, campgrounds and tribal longhouses, you can hike into the hot and humid rainforest in search of rhinoceros hornbills, clouded leopards and tiny tarsiers, or just settle in at the Semenggoh orangutan sanctuary near Kuching and let the ‘old man of the forest’ come to you. Sleeping out in the forest is an experience all by itself – a cacophonic chorus of unidentified whistles, shrieks and rattles will fill the air, while supersized bugs clamber
Big changes are now in effect at Delta Air Lines' network of Sky Clubs. As of Feb. 1, SkyMiles members who get Delta lounge access via a cobranded credit card have a set number of annual club visits they can make.
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