Julia Roberts in the film 'Eat Pray Love'
Singers, businessmen and above all actors, who seek to catch the mysticism of Asia to revive their career, or simply looking to disconnect and enjoy the pleasures and luxury of Asia. In April 2010, Sienna Miller and her then boyfriend Jude Law pedaled like two other tourists between the temples of Luang Prabang , with their wrists wrapped in white ropes that betrayed the Baci blessing ceremony they had received. They were staying at the exclusive Hotel Amantaka and managed to go unnoticed in the small town in northern Laos among the hundreds of backpackers who come every year.
Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem made spiritual tourism fashionable in Bali after the filming of 'Eat, Pray and Love'. Since then, the American actress is a regular on the Island of the Gods, where she drops by whenever she can. , as do David Beckham, Claudia Schiffer or Jessica Biel, among others. The Como Shambala hotel protects many of them from the harassment of the paparazzi. Among our celebrities, Julio Iglesias was one of the first to fall for the Balinese charms , Sánchez Dragó dedicated a book to him, and couples such as Amparo Muñoz and Flavio Labarca (1983), Alejandro Sanz and Jaydy Mitchel (2000), Nieves Álvarez and Marco (2002), and David Bustamante and Paula Echevarría (2007) have celebrated their wedding there. ) .
One of the corners of the exclusive hotel Como Shambala, the favorite of celebrities
Our Duchess of Alba was left without her Thai honeymoon due to her health problems, but the Kingdom of Smiles attracts many celebrities from the international scene every year. The Thai government's efforts to promote the country as a filming and production center for international films, offering very attractive prices and conditions, are bearing fruit. Movies like 'The Beach', 'The Hangover', 'The Impossible' or 'Bangkok Dangerous' have brought actors of the stature of Leonardo DiCaprio, Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling or Bradley Cooper to Thailand, promoting the country doubly, inside and outside its borders. Many of them take advantage of filming breaks to relax in luxury villas for rent on the Thai coasts of Samui and Phuket.
But perhaps the couple that has done the most to make Southeast Asia fashionable is Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The actress shot the movie 'Tomb Raider' in Angkor Wat, Cambodia, in 2001 and from there she brought her son Maddox, whom she adopted a year later in Phnom Penh. The actress recounts the experience of her first visit to Cambodia in a video she shot for Louis Vuitton. Later she and her husband would create the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation to contribute to rural development in Cambodia. Her link to the mainland would continue with her son Ella Pax, whom she adopted in 2007 from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. At the end of last year, the actress made two trips with the children to her country of origin, to which she exposes whenever she can. She coincides in tastes with Mick Jagger, choosing the exclusive Amansara hotel.
The temples of Luang Prabang where Sienna Miller and Jude Law got lost