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10 Top Spots for Summer Essential Canary Islands 6 10 GOOD FOOD SHOPPING PENANG HONG KONG OCTOBER 2015 PLAY | EAT | SHOP | RELAX | EXPLORE OLD MEETS NEW 10 TOP SPOTS FOR SUMMER ESSENTIAL CANARY ISLANDS MUST HAVE CAMERA APPS Are you readyThanks to take for your celebrating RCI membership with to a us!higher level? HERE’S TO Stepcountless up to the holiday RCImemories Platinum STILL TOExperience COME What better way to kick off 40 more years of dream holidays than by celebrating the millions of RCI© members who share their extraordinary holiday memories with us. Thank you for making our year long celebration oh so special. We can’t wait to be part of so many special momentsRCI Platinum still membershipto come. gives you everything you enjoy with your RCI membership plus A legacy of holidays thatso much define more, including a lifetime. additional travel opportunities throughout the world, exclusive benefits and special discounts. 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For full terms and conditions, visit rci.com ® Call RCI on 65 6223 4333 PLATINUM or call your country’s toll free number 21 OCTOBER Santa Cruz de La Palma 2015 colonial street house facades in Canary Islands CONTENTS FEATURES countless holiday 12 10 TOP SPOTS FOR SUMMER From fun filled water parks, historical temples, idyllic markets and spectacular scenery. memories By Gary Macnamara 19 ESSENTIAL CANARY ISLANDS Sugar sand beaches, hiking and windsurfing: The Canary Islands are like a mini European Caribbean By Erin Florio 24 JAPAN’S KYUSHU ISLAND Where the ancient world meets modern metropolises By Neha Kale 12 24 ON THE COVER Tenerife, Canary Islands. Check out endlessvacation.com Endless Vacation Pacific magazine is produced in part by Total Marketing Management. Terms & Conditions: Prices are based on low season and are subject to availability at time of print. Room sizes vary between resorts. All prices are in Singapore dollars unless otherwise specified. For full membership terms and conditions please call our friendly vacation consultants or check out our website RCI.com. Endless Vacation® is published by RCI Asia-Pacific Singapore, LLC and created in Singapore. All material published in Endless Vacation® is copyrighted and no part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without written consent from the publisher. The publisher also reserves the right to refuse any advertisement without explanation for such action. The advertisements found in Endless Vacation® magazine represents the views of the advertisers and is not necessarily endorsed by RCI the publisher. The RCI logo and other designs are trademarks of Resort Condominiums International, LLC, and are registered in countries throughout the world. They may not be used without permission from RCI. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information in this magazine, no responsibility can be accepted by this publisher for the quality of foods and services supplied by advertisers, prices quoted, typesetting and printed errors. Responsibility cannot be accepted for the accuracy of the author’s work. Unsolicited material is welcome. Publication, however, is not guaranteed and no responsibility will be accepted for lost manuscripts. All information is correct at the time of printing. ©Copyright 2013 RCI Asia Pacific Pte Ltd MICA (P) 169/10/2013. ENDLESS VACATION 1 CONTENTS IN EACH ISSUE 3 READY, SET, GO The latest news in the travel world 5 TRAVEL GEAR Welcome Best in tow As an RCI member, you understand the benefits 6 FOOD that vacation ownership can bring to you and Gastronomic guide of Penang your family. Your membership gives you access to great accommodation, fantastic value and the 8 LANDMARKS opportunity to experience new destinations year Botanic gardens of the world after year. With summer on the way, why not start planning your next vacation today. 10 SHOPPING Hong Kong There’s a good reason why thousands of visitors flock to Penang each year to check out the 12 AT A GLANCE culinary delights (pages 6-7). It’s a place rich in culture with a multitude of choices to enjoy a 6 Broome, Western Australia gastronomic journey. DINING IN 18 We travel the globe to ten of the top botanical Chicken Afritada gardens where you can soak up the culture. Featuring gardens from Japan, Hawaii, North Colorado, Cape Town and our very own GET ON HOLIDAYS Singapore Botanical Gardens now on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List (pages 8-9). 30 Members Health Come shopping in Hong Kong (pages 10-11) plus 31 Must Have Camera Apps check out the top 10 summer vacation spots 32 Members Education in Asia (pages 13-17). We also give you some 34 New Resorts great tips for making the most out of a vacation at Canary Islands (pages 19-23). Come check 36 RCI Cruise out the latest offers on cruise vacations (pages 36-37). There are also some great adventures to explore on Japan’s Kyusha Island where the ancient world meets modern metropolises WEEKENDERS (pages 24-28). For a short getaway, go experience the wonders of Ko Samui (pages 38-39) or 38 KO SAMUI - THAILAND discover the diverse range of cultural and 8 A place where everyone is welcome vacation activities in Selangor (pages 40-41). 40 SELANGOR - MALAYSIA It is often said that travel can change the The gateway to Malaysia world, so next time if you are staying in one of our wonderful resorts, take the time to 10 venture beyond the resort, and learn about the people and places that give each destination its distinct features. Travel safe and create great memories. Deirdre Bourke Director of Member Services RCI Asia Pacific 2 OCTOBER 2015 The Atomic Dome, ex Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Hall ready, JAPAN Peace Project set, Hiroshima war museum go more popular than ever. Seven decades after the devastation Cambodia’s torture prison and killing 35 new ‘peace projects’ of an atomic bomb on the city of fields, West African slave ports, as well planned for 2015 Hiroshima, the site remains one of the as the Nagasaki Peace Park and Atomic most popular tourist attractions in the Bomb Museum. In addition to the Peace Memorial Museum, country. Recently it appears to be getting Hiroshima officials are actively promoting more popular. According to local media, The latter site memorializes the events and the city’s peace-centric identity. Hiroshima visits to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial devastation surrounding the second atomic Mayor Kazumi Matsui has designated 2015 Museum by foreign tourists hit a record bomb dropped on that Japanese city three as a time to “share Hiroshima’s desire for high of 234,360 in 2014. That’s more than days after the Hiroshima bombing. peace,” launching a series of 35 projects to be a 100% increase from just three years ago. completed in the coming months. The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome (also Visitors come to bear witness to preserved known as Genbaku Dome) was designated The projects, estimated to cost roughly burnt wreckage, painful survivor a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. 107 million yen (about $1.2million), focus testimonies and human shadows left The iconic structure, designed in 1915 by a on preserving the memories of the bomb’s permanently visible after the atomic bomb Czech architect, was the city’s Industrial survivors and enhancing the city’s ability to explosion’s incandescent destruction. Promotion Hall. When the United States attract and accommodate tourists. Some describe Hiroshima as a gripping, dropped the bomb on August 6, 1945, it educational and emotional example exploded just above the building, but In honor of this month’s 70th anniversary, of “dark tourism,” “grief tourism” didn’t totally destroy it because the the mayor has allocated funding to create or “battlefield tourism,” similar to immediate blast and heat buffered the air and improve smartphone applications that Nazi concentration camps in Europe, at ground zero. supply information about peace tourism. ENDLESS VACATION 3 ready, Heaven Lake, Xinjiang. setgo, CHINA A new airport opened in northwest China’s Xinjiang Koktokay Airport received its first flight from the regional capital Koktokay National Geopark, or Koktokay Scenic Spot, Urumqi on 1st, Aug. The airport is located at Fuyun County, Altay northeast of Fuyun County in Xinjiang, is an Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. ideal place for sightseeing, hiking, and photographing. The travel time from Urumqi to Fuyun has been shortened to 50 minutes from around seven hours. China Southern Airlines opened a new route linking Urumqi with Koktokay. The CZ6693/4 flight with more than 180 seats will fly to the town every day. Koktokay, around 400km from Urumqi, has abundant mineral and tourist resources. The new airport will bring Koktokay closer to the outside world, which officials hope will attract more tourists. SINGAPORE CRUISING Singapore’s First UNESCO Making a splash World Heritage Site Launching this season, the 4180 passenger Anthem of the The Singapore Botanic Gardens has been inscribed as a Seas (from $1,299), from Royal Caribbean, has a glass viewing UNESCO World Heritage Site. capsule that swings on a mechanical arm for 360-degree views of the sea, plus a skydiving simulator. 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