Azerai Can Tho
Adrian Zecha’s resort of 60 villas on a private islet in the Hau River, a short boat ride from the city of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta.
Countryside
Rosewood Luang Prabang
Bill Bensley’s 23-key resort beside a waterfall in a forest valley, ten minutes from the old town of Luang Prabang, with six tented villas on the hilltop.
Azuma Farm Koiwai
A 24-room retreat by Adrian Zecha’s Azumi and JR East in a grove on Koiwai Farm, at the foot of Mount Iwate, west of Morioka.
Amanemu
Aman’s hot-spring resort above Ago Bay in Ise-Shima National Park: 24 suites and a number of villas by Kerry Hill, each with its own onsen bath.
Yangshuo Sugar House
In 2006 the Hong Kong investor Danny T.T. Chan and his mainland partner Yang Xiaodong bought an abandoned sugar mill of the 1960s on the north bank of the Li River, a few minutes’ drive from Yangshuo, meaning to make it a heritage resort with art and artists in residence. Vector Architects, the Beijing practice … Read more
Capella Ubud, Bali
Capella Ubud began as a plan for a conventional hotel. Its site, about nine acres of rainforest and rice paddies in Keliki village, in Tegallalang, was meant to carry a hundred-room hotel, by Bill Bensley’s account, until he “convinced the owner to change tack” to a project of minimal impact. Bensley, who designed both the … Read more
Santani Wellness Kandy
Sri Lanka’s first purpose-built luxury wellness resort: 22 open pavilions on a former tea estate in the hills near Kandy.
Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape
Sixteen open-sided villas without walls or doors in the jungle of the upper Ayung valley, north of Ubud. Adults only.
Hoshinoya Bali
Thirty villas along canal-like pools above the Pakerisan River, east of Ubud, run with Japanese order and calm.
Songtsam Lodge Cizhong
A 26-room lodge devoted to wine, in a Tibetan Catholic village on the upper Mekong where French missionaries planted the first vines.