Scottish Daily Mail

YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE

TWO HOLIDAYS IN ONE

- JENNY COAD

Can’t decide between a city break and an out-of-the-way hideaway? Why not break your long-haul flight and create a terrific, two-stop trip? ICELAND AND NEW YORK BREAK up the nine-hour flight to New York and enjoy Iceland’s scenery and sulphurous lagoons (above).

INSIDER TIP: Take a dip in Nautholsvi­k, Reykavik’s geothermal hot spring with its own beach. Pop into New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, Greenwich Village, whitney.org.

DETAILS: Iceland Air flies from London to New York via Reykjavik with a stopover from £679, icelandair.

co.uk. Price includes three nights in Reykjavik. Rooms at The Jane, in New York’s West Village, from £172 a night, thejanenyc.com. HONG KONG AND BALI LIVE the hectic high life in Hong Kong then laze on Bali’s beaches.

INSIDER TIP: Sai Ying Pun, in northwest Hong Kong, where the British military once resided, is full of lively restaurant­s. On Bali, whip up fragrant Balinese food at Anika’s cookery school, anikacooki­ngclass.com.

DETAILS: Western & Oriental offers seven nights’ B&B at the Conrad in Bali (above) and three nights’ roomonly at the Harbour Grand Kowloon from £1,655pp, including flights and transfers, westernori­ental.com. DUBAI AND SOUTH AFRICA EN ROUTE to Cape Town, stop to visit Dubai Mall (above), the world’s largest shopping centre, before a safari in Kariega Game Reserve in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

INSIDER TIP: Seek out low-key Al Quoz for Dubai’s galleries and fashion studios. See Kariega’s bush scenery from the river on a boat trip.

DETAILS: Hayes & Jarvis offers a sevennight trip to Dubai and the Eastern Cape from £1,499pp, hayesandja­rvis.

co.uk. It includes three nights’ B&B at Marina Byblos, four nights’ fullboard plus game drives at Kariega Main Lodge, transfers and return flights. Based on departures September 14, 2016.

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