Undomesticated bliss
Luxury scales new heights in the Himalayas, a love letter to urban jungles, discovering Thailand’s Golden Triangle, and South Australia’s new island escape.
If I was a vulture soaring high up in the Himalayas over marbled mountains, where ridges of blue rock pierce pristine snow meadows, I might fly along the deepest gorge in the world carved between two of Nepal’s great massifs, Dhaulagiri and Annapurna. Looking down over the Mustang valley I would see the Kali Gandaki River, wild and milky grey like Chinese clay funnelling out of a wide plateau, sand-coloured and dusty, windswept by the scent of juniper. And I might just spot with my sharp eyes, a long low building, more glass than stone, cradled by shale, glinting in a cold sun and microscopic in a huge landscape.
But to explore this isolated place cut off from the world
