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Cape Town Nature and Culture Combo Makes for a Top Sustainable Tourism Destination

Wow – look at that for a view! Across a bay lie green hills and a headland topped by a craggy summit, with a fishing town on the shoreline. There’s a blue sky with wispy clouds, and not a hint…

Even a relatively short road trip from Jakarta allows you to explore glorious landscapes near and south of Pelabuhan Ratu, southern Java.

Weizhou Island in Guangxi, southwest China, is volcanic, with a bay occupying the crater; close to the nearby resort city of Beihai.

Qinyuan county seems little known even within Shanxi, while nearby Pingyao ancient city was a banking centre dubbed "China's Wall Street".

Though physically similar to Po Toi, and little more than 10km south of Cheung Chau, Wailingding has a thriving village with a unique character, and a visit makes for an entertaining, out of Hong Kong experience Even if you’re familiar…

This area along the Lancang has been dubbed the "Valley of the Cats", site of a conservation project in China's first pilot national park.

Kenting is at the southern tip of Taiwan, while the island of Lanyu is a ferry ride away, with almost Polynesian character.

At 340 kilometres long, Seram in eastern Indonesia may be one of the largest islands you've never heard of.

Though China’s bullet train network is yet to reach Hong Kong [connected since I wrote this], lines start just across the border, in Shenzhen, and shorten travel times to places that are otherwise just a tad distant for a weekend…

The Dapeng Peninsula lies within Shenzhen though is a place apart, rooted in Guangdong province and with history and coastal scenery.

Taiwan's Taroko National Park includes spectacular gorges carved into marble, and magnificent coastal cliffs.

Surely the place to head when in Foshan is Lingnan Tiandi, a renovated historic area; not sure Bruce Lee park is so crucial tho.

Category Travel

Cape Town Nature and Culture Combo Makes for a Top Sustainable Tourism Destination

Spectacular southern Java including Geopark

Guangxi’s Volcano in the Sea – Weizhou; and Beihai, City with an Old Street

Exploring Shanxi: temples, natural beauty and Pingyao, the Banking Centre that Died with a Dynasty

Wailingding – Zhuhai island south of Cheung Chau

On Safari in the Valley Where Snow Leopards Roam

Kenting – Laid-back Southernmost Taiwan; and Almost Polynesia on Lanyu

Seram and Haruku, South Maluku: The Islands Where Birds Colour the World

Danxia Shan – Far More than a Magnificent Rock Penis

Dapeng – History, Culture and Beachgoing in Shenzhen … Yes, Really!

Taiwan’s Magnificent Marble Mountains: Simply Gorgeous

Foshan – Islands of Interest in an Ocean of Development