Beginning underwater, the camera rises up to survey the title vessel, a splendid ocean-going hotel 20 storeys tall, then descends to scrutinise the face of a man jogging on the deck.
It is a narrow road plunging through the forest, giving way occasionally to splendid views of the ocean.
Kota Kinabalu Hotel Our room in the Shangri-La had a splendid view of the ocean and a Jacuzzi on our deck.
Highlights of this eco luxury property including a pool overlooking the ocean, a splendid restaurant serving sumptuous cuisine, and rustic-luxe rooms with private decks.
This realm of divine origin was ruled from a splendid metropolis in the distant ocean.
The same goes for PW Botha, the last but one apartheid president, who saw out the last years of his life in a splendid mansion on the Indian Ocean.
It was as if the splendid and courageous giant of the oceans were rising up in horror, disputing what had been done to it, and why should it not. . . .
| Against all this expensive grandeur, Swann holds an impressive sale of travel posters (Nov. 12) that includes splendid advertisements for the tempting journeys to be found on French ocean liners, German zeppelins, and British railways.
Finally, I moved into a splendid little cottage, a block from Golden Gate Park and two blocks from the ocean.
Up until then, the 700 square mile island had been sitting in splendid sunlit isolation for about 10 million years, since it first emerged from the Indian Ocean in a series of volcanic eruptions.
Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, is also one of its most precious, a landmass in the Indian Ocean that broke free of the African mainland 165 million years ago and developed in splendid isolation.
