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With it’s eclectic mash-up of cultures, international shopping mecca status, and cutting edge art and style vultures, there are more reasons to visit Hong Kong than ever in the Year of the Dragon.

Here are our shopping, food and nightlife picks:

South East Asia in the wet season is not all waterlogged Birkenstock’s, mudslides and mosquitoes.

Hitting the tropics during the rainy months can mean much more bang for your buck - miles of beach without so much as another Bintang beach towel in sight, photos of Angkor Wat refreshingly free of other tourists’ heads and more sunshine than you might expect!

While it was the gigantic photo of Harvey Keitel in a bathrobe that drew us in, it was the experience of being scrubbed, sloughed, soaped and steamed into oblivion that made us rave.

If you're visiting Marrakech, you owe it to yourself to visit a hammam. This is a traditional Moroccan bathhouse, where you will leave with the fresh, glowing skin of a newborn.

Shaq (that's him on the right!) is one of our most popular tour leaders, and it's easy to see why. He's warm, approachable, funny and most of all...extremely knowledgeable. 

We had a chat to Shaq, and asked him a few questions to give you a better insight into what he loves the most about his home country, Uganda.

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