ILOILO CITY is a useful transit point to northern Panay and other Visayan islands, but otherwise of little interest. There's something hauntingly homogenous about the ramshackle nature of Philippine port cities. Apart from some graceful old houses...
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The site of ancient Kroton has been entirely lost, but in its day this was among the most important colonial settlements of Magna Graecia, overshadowed by its more powerful neighbour Sybaris but with a school of medicine that was famous throughout the...
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Eighty kilometres north of Tapah in the Kinta Valley, IPOH grew rich on the tin trade and is now the third biggest city in Malaysia. The muddy Sungei Kinta cuts the centre of Ipoh neatly in two; most of the hotels are situated...
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