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Wishing you a Happy Lunar New Year, the Year of the Ox
Virginia Offers Ideal Wellness Retreats to Speed Healing of the Body and Soul
As we start the new year, hopeful travelers are eager to work wellness into their future travel plans. The pandemic has made us increasingly conscious of personal health and fitness, with surveys showing a rising interest in immunity boosting retreats and socially distanced wellness trips. Rural luxury also tops lists of 2021 travel trends, with travelers looking to avoid crowds and connect with nature, while focusing on the need for mental and physical pampering. Enter Virginia, with an array of wellness retreats and pastoral luxury resorts ideal for travelers seeking an off-the-beaten-path destination to heal their bodies, minds and souls.
Eupepsia Wellness Resort, located in the heart of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, provides an immersive approach to wellness with real-time curation for a truly transformative experience. Located on 256 rural acres and founded on the science and philosophy of Ayurveda, the resort's integrated programs center around sound sleep, clean 'farm-to-table' eating, and progressive health, fitness and yoga therapies. With the help of a team of specialists, the resort customizes its wellness retreats to each guest's bio-individuality, health condition and personal goals. From de-stress, detox, weight loss and full rejuvenation to advanced healing, there is a program for everyone.
A vacation to Virginia is all about discovering what you love. Learn more about the topics above or plan your travels at www.Virginia.org.
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Approaching February
The Travel Corporation Sees Emerging Trend of Solo Travellers First to Resume Travel
The Travel Corporation (TTC) has seen an uptick in travel bookings by solo travellers for 2021, and has decided to highlight its special deals ranging from single supplement discounts to 100% waiver of Single Supplement fees. The attractive savings are offered across selected 2021 itineraries for its guided holiday brands Trafalgar and Insight Vacations and its luxury river cruise brand Uniworld.
Recognizing the need to adapt quickly in a post-COVID-19 world as holiday travel gradually resumes, TTC has also unveiled a new well-being video to help promote further confidence and provide peace-of-mind for guests booking guided holidays with Trafalgar and Insight Vacations, ensuring travellers know that there is a new well-being director who will provide enhanced support to ensure adherence to all hygiene standards and will update them with the latest travel protocols guidelines.
TTC's Well-being Directors are expertly trained in a three-step approach:
Step 1: Always-on personal support and 24/7 assistance.
Step 2: Supplier partner engagement and compliance.
Step 3: Daily monitoring of distancing and hygiene standards.
To know more about TTC's various holidays and more ways to save, please visit: www.ttc.com or call TTC's travel advisors at +65 6922 595.
New Beginnings
Taste Summer in the Tropics
You can't go past a cold beer and a bucket of prawns in summer, but have you tried a Cassowary Cocktail or a Tiger Prawn Schnitzel with pineapple and persimmon?
Summer is unfolding in Cairns & Great Barrier Reef when warm rain refreshes the landscape overnight and brings seasonal experiences unique to summer in the tropics. This means that luscious mangoes, unique native ingredients and signature seafood dishes are taking centre stage on menus across the region.
For a truly local drink, you can't go past the Cassowary Cocktail from Ochre Restaurant, located on the waterfront in Cairns. As colourful as its namesake, the Cassowary Cocktail's rich red comes from the cassowary's favourite food – local Davidson plum, which is blended with Hunter Distillery ginger liqueur, local finger lime and Smirnoff vodka.
Savour the taste of the native plum a little longer by choosing Ochre Restaurant's Twice Cooked Pork Belly served with Davidson plum jam, Queensland scallops and cauliflower puree.
At Palm Cove, Nu Nu chef Nick Holloway is pairing tiger prawns fresh from the Gulf of Carpentaria with Mareeba pineapple and persimmons from Tolga. The Tiger Prawn Schnitzel is finished with a spicy Korean ssamjang that brings together the tropical fruit flavours for a bite of summer freshness.
After ordering, enjoy the absolute Palm Cove beachfront view with a Pineapple Express – Sailor Jerry spiced rum, Falernum, fresh pineapple and lime, shaken and served with coconut sorbet.
In the city at CC's Alfresco in Bailey, a Crystalbrook Collection Hotel, the signature beef steak has been paired with a light salad, ensuring the beef from Crystalbrook Station (west of Cairns) remains the hero of the dish while matching the casual, relaxed setting befitting a balmy Cairns evening.
For more information go to cairnsgreatbarrierreef.com
