It’s a Funny Old World
The more you see, the more interesting it gets.
Being well-travelled does not mean you’re done looking. If anything, it makes our planet feel even larger. There’s always another island, another route through a country you thought you knew and another reason to return to an old favourite at different points in your life. A tiger’s stripes dissolving into grass the second you’re sure you’ve missed it. The hush of Valletta’s harbour just after the last ferry has left. Ice cracking somewhere out of sight in Antarctica, felt before it’s heard.
It’s that curiosity that runs throughout this issue of EDEN Geographic. In Twin Sets and Pearls, nine Maldivian resorts become a study in personality: three sets of sister resorts with contrasting ideas about island life, and three standalone originals whose longevity owes far more to identity than fashion. The question of staying power continues in Reasons, Seasons and Lifetimes, which explores the places that suit one particular moment in life and give you all sorts of reasons to return years later.
Sometimes the difference is geographical. Sea, Stone and Sky moves between two versions of the Mediterranean: room to disappear on a peninsula in Rhodes, or townhouse life in Malta’s fortified capital. India, by Oberoi follows a familiar route and opens up fresh ground within it, turning east from the Golden Triangle into the tiger forests, temple country and palace landscapes of Madhya Pradesh, where two new Oberoi addresses lead the way. Then there are the ideas that required the world to catch up with them. Terra Incognita spans Antarctica, Monaco and the extraordinary engineering of Jumeirah’s Maltese Falcon, with three seafaring stories that began ahead of their time.
Perhaps that’s the pleasure of travel today. Not collecting more places for the sake of it, but discovering how much of the familiar remains unseen. Wherever your thoughts are heading next, you may need a longer list. And when you’re ready to turn one of those thoughts into plans, we’re here.
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