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Get Your 'Downward Dog' On With COMO Hotels' Yoga Retreats

If you want a vacation that's good for your body and soul (and probably doesn't involve too many fancy cocktails), the yoga packages that the COMO Hotels are putting on might be the thing. With four more week-long retreats scheduled for 2009, it's just a matter of picking which corner of the world you want to jet to in order to practice yoga for five hours a day — with experts, of course, in a romantically relaxing setting.

The exact details of the yoga retreats depend on which destination you choose, but they all include six nights' accommodation, the yoga training, various meals and airport transfers, plus several include some cultural excursions as well. You can choose from the Parrot Cay on Turks and Caicos (an October course), Uma Paro in Bhutan (July 12-18) or COMO Shambhala Estate in Bali (mid-December).

Package prices range from $3,515 in Bali to $5, 681 at Parrot Cay. And while the yoga idea does sound like a great getaway vacation, we are a little concerned that there may be a bit too much emphasis on the whole health thing — they even want you to eat healthy organic food the whole time. That's fine for some, but we still think a proper beachside vacation should include a few indulgences.

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Boutique Bhutan

The majority of travelers to Bhutan do so through organized tour operators, thus hotels are, for the most part chosen for you. However, even if you go the tour operator route you can go ahead and ask for certain hotels during your stay.

Hotel Jumolhari in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu is one hotel you might want to consider asking for. Why? For starters they have a well designed website, always a plus in our book. Second, the recently renovated hotel comes equipped with satellite tv, a hair dryer, views of the valley, and they even claim to have WiFi "coming soon". For now you will have to get by on tethered high speed Internet access, which isn't a bad compromise.

Jumolhari is located in the middle of the city center near plenty of essential shops, and from here you can easily coordinate a trip to Taktshang Goemba (Tiger's Nest Monastery) high above the Paro Valley.

[Photo: Thimphu skyline idea_hamster insert Hotel Jumolhari]

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