Ananda in the Himalayas
An Ayurvedic destination spa opened in 2000 on a Maharaja’s estate in the Himalayan foothills above Rishikesh.
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Six Senses Fort Barwara
A fourteenth-century Rajasthani fort restored over a decade into a 48-suite resort, half an hour from the tigers of Ranthambore.
Raffles Sentosa Singapore
Singapore’s first all-villa resort: 62 pool villas by Yabu Pushelberg in ten hectares of garden above Tanjong Beach, on Sentosa.
Park Hyatt Kuala Lumpur
A 252-room hotel on levels 75 to 114 of Merdeka 118, the second-tallest building in the world, at the edge of Kuala Lumpur’s old centre.
The Langham, Jakarta
A 223-room hotel in a 65-storey tower in Jakarta’s Sudirman Central Business District, with restaurants by Tom Aikens and Masaharu Morimoto.
Raffles Bali
Thirty-two private pool villas on a hillside above Jimbaran Bay, in the south of Bali, facing the Indian Ocean.
Fairmont Hanoi
A 241-room hotel on the edge of Hanoi’s Old Quarter, the first Fairmont in Vietnam, with a restaurant by chef Luke Nguyen and a rooftop pool.
Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, Hoi An
A resort of 100 villas on Ha My Beach, between Hoi An and Da Nang, with architecture drawn from the garden houses of Hue.
JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay
Bill Bensley’s 244-room beach resort on Khem Beach, at the southern end of Phu Quoc, designed as the campus of an imaginary French colonial university.
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.