JULY 24, 2000 VOL. 156 NO. 3

TRAVEL WATCH Imagine: Airline Food You Can Actually Eat Ever wonder why airline food tastes like undifferentiated mush? Well, consider how it's prepared Detour Hong Kong's beaches Short Cuts Emirates' business- and first-class lounges at Dubai International Airport opened at the end of June and immediately raised the bar for airside facilities Web Crawling Johnny Jet is packed with information Travel Watch Archive: Browse hundreds of Asian travel tips

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LOUNGE MIRAGE Emirates' business- and first-class lounges at Dubai International Airport opened at the end of June and immediately raised the bar for airside facilities. The lounges offer showers, business centers with free Internet access, television areas and hot and cold meals around the clock. First-class passengers who have a transit wait of more than eight hours can relax in comfortable bedrooms. Ditto business-class flyers, but they have to do without ensuite bathrooms. That's still quite a step up from a free salad bar.

PRIVATE TOURIST Do you love the smell of cordite in the morning? The Tourism Authority of Thailand and the Royal Thai Army's Special Warfare Command Unit have teamed up to offer travelers a real Rambo of an experience in Lop Bure province. Designed to "test the limits of an individual's courage," the program includes diving off a 10-m tower, skydiving from a hot-air balloon, jungle survival training, automatic-weapons shooting, rock climbing and other death defying activities. Call (66-2) 694-1222 to enlist.

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