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Japan's first Setouchi Art and Industry festival (3-31 Oct 2026) turns seven working factories - a 197-year-old salt works, a uniform maker, a battery plant, a denim street - into a dispersed art museum across Okayama and Ehime. Here's what's inside, and how to visit.
Drawn from more than 370 million verified guest reviews, Booking.com's Traveller Review Awards 2026 have named Phang Nga one of Earth's ten Most Welcoming Regions — a ranking earned by everyday coastal hospitality, one small kindness at a time.
Searches for seagrass wallpaper are up 94% and sandstone up 257% this year — and the woven textures the design world is newly loving are the ones Andaman coast communities have worked with for generations.
Two divers off Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, have rediscovered a Roman merchant ship sealed for twenty centuries — with roughly 500 wine amphorae, lead anchors, and a story of Mediterranean trade waiting to be read.
Okinawa’s place on the New York Times 2026 travel list makes sense the moment you look closer. One trip can move from Naha street life to UNESCO heritage, glowing reef water, whale season, and the bright twang of the three-string sanshin.
A fresh set of Hubble observations has revealed something wonderfully unexpected on Saturn: a giant 10-sided wave circling the south pole. The new pattern is not just beautiful—it may help scientists understand how giant-planet weather grows, shifts, and settles over time.
A new NOAA-backed study turns Alaska’s deep seafloor into something wonderfully readable. By tracing coral and sponge communities across 15 little-seen sites, researchers found that underwater neighborhoods often follow water masses and currents more than depth alone.
A week of light in Phuket Old Town did more than entertain. From Baba-Peranakan colour to old shophouse geometry, the event offered practical, heritage-rich ideas for anyone who loves thoughtful coastal style.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey with a fresh kind of promise: not just deeper views, but wider ones. From a 2.4-metre mirror to a 300-megapixel infrared eye, Roman is built to map billions of galaxies and reveal thousands of new worlds.
A hidden ridge off California is becoming one of the ocean’s most exciting living laboratories. With fine-scale mapping, long-term cameras, and coral transplant experiments, Sur Ridge is showing how deep-sea science can be both precise and hopeful.
A new set of lunar images shows how much detail modern spacecraft can pull from a very small patch of the Moon. With a 60-foot crater, six days of patience, and remarkably precise timing, NASA turned one bright new mark into a vivid lesson in how we read another world.
An early departure can change Phang Nga Bay more than any filter or detour. With verified park facts, route timing, and seasonal notes, here is why a 7am start often delivers the calmest and most memorable version of the bay.
A recent Phuket showcase of 2026 royal fabric designs is doing more than celebrating textiles. With 50 local recipients, new knot and floral patterns, and a national push to modernise Thai cloth, it offers warm new ideas for how coastal homes can feel rooted, tactile, and beautifully local.
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