YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE
TWO HOLIDAYS IN ONE
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.