Travel is often sold to the eye – sunsets, skylines, infinity pools. But close your eyes and a place can feel even more alive. Here are three sensory escapes in three very different Karma Group destinations.
Karma Bavaria
In the Bavarian Alps, morning arrives as sound first: cowbells clinking across Alpine pasture, the low hush of wind combing pine forest, the distant slap of oars on Schliersee’s steel-blue water. You hear the mountains before you properly see them.
Karma Minoan
On the mythical island of Crete, it’s scent that anchors you. Wild thyme crushed underfoot on a hillside walk. Woodsmoke curling from a village taverna. The sweet, grapey vapour rising from a kazani still as raki spirit distils in copper.
Karma Fushi
Touch defines the Maldives. Step barefoot onto the deck of Karma Fushi: sun-warmed surface under your soles, salt drying on your skin after a swim, a warm equatorial breeze lifting the edge of a linen shirt. Later, the sea itself – buoyant, silken – holds you without effort.
Sight dazzles, taking up so much of our attention. But sound, touch and smell linger – and sometimes, with eyes closed, they bring you back faster than any photograph.
