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This post was originally published on this site“Et voila!” Announces our taxi driver, with justification, as we pull into the magnificent Kasbah d’Eau. A beach castle perched high above Morocco’s Atlantic coastline booked for our winter escape by Fleewinter. Fleewinter has put together our personalised programme of flight, transfer and hotel. Recommending an itinerary that will show us an authentic Morocco, far from madding crowds, infuriating rug sellers and belching mopeds.  Created from local sandstone, cooling in summer, warming in winter, Kasbah d’Eau, is a boutique hotel of just 17 rooms and suites, with art house design. A calm double-height central atrium pulls in the light, illuminating vivid contemporary abstract art that contrasts with solidly traditional dark furniture. Surf schools outnumber shops in a village with a population of around 5,000. Here Africa disappears in mists and mirages into Atlantic rollers. Fleewinter’s Morocco experts know this land well, recommending unique experiences: horse-riding on the beach, taking a camel ride to an argan-oil farm, a hamman, having lunch with a Berber family, a Moroccan cookery lesson and yoga. The welcome If ever there is a boutique airport it is Essaouira Mogador where we’ve passed through immigration, collected our luggage and picked

This post was originally published on this siteIf you have ever looked at a map of the South Island and wondered where the scenery turns from beautiful to completely unreal, the answer is the Southern Lakes. Queenstown might be the draw card that brings you to the Southern Lakes, but let it also be the launchpad for discovering what the locals commonly refer to as paradise: the landscape and lifestyle beyond.  Stretching across western Southland, Central Otago and up into the Mackenzie Basin, this region is New Zealand’s most spectacular alpine playground. Think vast wilderness, glacial lakes, and mountains that look like they were designed for postcards, but somehow feel even better in person. It is also a place where raw natural beauty meets genuinely world-class hospitality, which is why so many discerning travellers return again and again. What makes the Southern Lakes so special? The Southern Lakes region is built around some of New Zealand’s most iconic landscapes. It is home to three of the country’s largest lakes, including its deepest, and dramatic U-shaped valleys carved by ancient glaciers. UNESCO World Heritage protected wilderness sits right alongside refined, high-end experiences and some discretely placed and respectfully designed private villas