Angelica Espiritu and Savina Briggs turned their dream into a reality with Hotel Sages, Bali’s First Black-Owned Hotel. Learn ...

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We'd arrived at Bowood Hotel the afternoon before, a gloriously sunny day. Surrounded by a huge golf course, the country manor house was beautiful. Green stretched as far as the eye could see, and ...