In 1982 Klaus Schleusener, a professor at IIT Madras, built himself a winter house with the Swiss architect Karl Damschen on a bare hill near the village of Pulinkudi, about ten kilometres from Trivandrum. It was octagonal. Friends kept coming to stay, so, as Kalpana Sunder told the story in India Currents, he bought more … Read more
Alistair Shearer, a British writer on India, tells the story in a few lines on his own website: he and “a couple of friends” bought twelve acres of coconut-palm grove on what he calls the isolated coast of Malabar, and the result is Neeleshwar Hermitage. He describes himself as its co-founder and gives evening lectures … Read more
A wellness sanctuary opened in 2005 on a forested hillside on the south coast of Koh Samui, built around a cave long used by Buddhist monks for meditation.
Thailand’s original health resort, founded in 1995 on the beach at Hua Hin, where every guest follows a personal programme.
A wellbeing retreat of 23 pool villas within Laguna Phuket at Bang Tao, the first property of Banyan Tree’s Veya brand.
The Swiss longevity clinic’s first resort outside Montreux: 29 rooms in seven villas beside a lake in the bamboo hills of Anji, Zhejiang.
A well-being island of 68 pool villas on Bodufushi in Raa Atoll, Maldives, reached by seaplane from Malé.
An Ayurvedic destination spa opened in 2000 on a Maharaja’s estate in the Himalayan foothills above Rishikesh.
A wellness retreat in a sal forest outside Dehradun, in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand, where the stay itself is the programme.
Bang Krachao is a loop of the Chao Phraya just across the river from Bangkok, protected from development and known as the city’s green lung, although it lies in Samut Prakan province. There, on some 200 rai, the Thai developer M.K. Real Estate built RAKxa with VitalLife, the wellness centre of Bumrungrad International Hospital, which … Read more