Word: teakwood
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...Naturally, at these prices you'll have to jettison some preconceptions. At Aurora, there are no teakwood salas staffed by smiling, sarong-clad maidens bearing ginger tea. Instead, the babushkas who greet you will show the way to clean but basic accommodation that still has the faint whiff of an institution hanging over it, despite a recent facelift. The solution is to lie back and think of the bragging potential?your friends may have done chakra balancing in Bhutan, or chromotherapy in Bali, but Kyrgyzstan...
...arthritis), or breathing the air in one of the salt rooms (therapeutic, apparently, for people with asthma and other respiratory complaints), guests relax in the sanatorium's gardens or at the nearby beach. Naturally, at these prices you'll have to jettison some preconceptions. At Aurora, there are no teakwood salas staffed by smiling, sarong-clad maidens bearing ginger tea. Instead, the babushkas who greet you will show the way to clean but basic accommodation that still has the faint whiff of an institution hanging over it, despite a recent face-lift. The solution is to lie back and think...
...Galleria area, which has since become the city's prime shopping district. His was one of the first restaurants to move beyond "American chop suey," Huang says, and became a favorite of Houston's oil barons. A white-tablecloth place dominated by a massive copper mural and carved teakwood partition, Hunan is where Vice President Dick Cheney, then CEO of Halliburton, once was host of a contract-signing ceremony with senior Chinese officials...
Sitting at the same highly polished teakwood table in the Foreign Ministry in Pyongyang, talking to the same officials the Kelly team had seen, former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg and I heard the North's considered response to Washington's worries. They would "clear the concerns" of the U.S.--get rid of the secret program--if Washington recognized their sovereignty and, especially, provided credible assurances of nonaggression...
...beautiful buildings throughout the world would be a good way to build brand awareness. It took a year to find the first location, a former nunnery backing onto the botanical gardens in the heart of Milan. The old building has been gutted and given a new glass facade; teakwood balconies off the rooms on the top floors to allow spectacular views of the gardens. The $70 million hotel will offer its 58-rooms starting at j600 a night. There will be a swimming pool with gold-mosaic tiles, a spa, a meditation garden with smoking moss and a restaurant...