E: 31/01 Win a Holiday to Thailand

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Win a £4,000 break in Thailand

All is beautifully serene at this super-smart escape on a hill overlooking Tri Trang and Patong beaches in southern Phuket. At Avista Hideaway Resort and Spa you can kick back and be pampered with Ayurvedic treatments and a 24-hour butler service, and watch the sunset from the roof-top bar, which offers creative cocktails and sensational views of the Andaman Sea. Enter this month's Where Are You? competition and you could win a holiday for two here. The prize, worth more than £4,000, includes seven nights' accommodation for two in a Buena Vista room, breakfast, transfers and Thai Airways flights from London to Phuket via Bangkok. The holiday cannot be taken in the peak season from December 2013 to February 2014. For more details, visit www.hideaway.avistahotelsandresorts.com or call +662 661 8141
Identify the salt flats where the photograph on page 148 of the January 2014 issue was taken, and send in your entry to arrive by 31 January. All correct entries will also be included in the Grand Prize draw at the end of the current competition period (1 October 2013-30 September 2014).

Clue: This may appear to be a miracle, but the boy racer in the picture is not actually speeding across a lake like a go-carting Messiah. The water is only millimetres deep, the result of a recent downpour on what is normally an expanse of arid salt flats. You would have seen a lake here if you happened to be passing 15,000 years ago, but it has long since receded (a part of it that remains gives its name to a city about 120 miles from here); and the illusion of its reappearance will quickly vanish as the water evaporates in the sun. For the past 100 years, the salt flats have been used as a suitably hard, obstacle-free space in which to attempt land-speed records, with five major contests now taking place annually. A 2005 film tells the story of one particular racer who found fame here. The two nearest settlements look like a single town (there's no gap between them), but they are in fact under very different jurisdictions. One has liberal gambling and alcohol laws; the other allows no gambling at all and enforces strict rules about the sale of booze. How they manage to get along, cheek by jowl, is pretty miraculous in itself.


To enter, identify the salt flats where the photograph on page 148 was taken

Answer: Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah (thanks to One-Eye below)


ENTER HERE: http://www.cntraveller.com/news/competitions/where-are-you-january-2014

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COMPETITION RULES:
1. Entries for Cond! Nast Traveller's Where Are You? competition can be sent on a postcard, by e-mail or on-line (all stating the entrant's full name, address and telephone number), and must correctly identify the place described according to the instructions given. Entries by post should be sent to: Where Are You? competition, Cond! Nast Traveller, Vogue House, 1 Hanover Square, London W1S 1JU. E-mail entries should be sent to compcntraveller@condenast.co.uk.
2. Each month's entry must arrive no later than the last day of the month on that issue's cover. Cond! Nast Traveller is not responsible for late, lost or damaged mail or e-mail. Illegible or mechanically reproduced entries are not eligible. Entries by text message are not eligible.
3. Only one correct answer will be registered per entrant per month. Each registered correct answer is eligible for the Grand Prize draw. So contestants who have one registered correct answer at the end of the competition period (1 October 2013) will have one entry in the Grand Prize draw; contestants with two registered correct answers will have two; and so on.
4. One Grand Prize winner of the current Where Are You? competition will be chosen, by 1 October 2013, in a random draw of qualified entries that have correctly identified locations in the competitions published in issues dated between October 2012 and September 2013. The winner will be notified within 14 days of the draw. If the winner cannot be contacted within 30 days, an alternative winner may be chosen. All decisions by the Editor are final.
5. The competition prize is not transferable. No substitutions for the prize will be allowed. Travel insurance is not included.
6. The Where Are You? competition is open to readers of Cond! Nast Traveller who are 18 or older on the date of entry, except for employees of Cond! Nast Publications, participating promotional agencies, contributors to Cond! Nast Traveller, and the families of any of the above.
7. All entries to the Where Are You? competition become the sole property of Cond! Nast Traveller and will neither be acknowledged nor returned.
8. Acceptance of the prize constitutes consent for the use of the winner's name and likeness and those of his/her travelling companion for editorial, advertising and publicity purposes.
9. Cond! Nast will not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage or expense incurred by a prizewinner or by his or her travelling companion (for example, costs of repatriation) as a consequence of any party participating in providing the prize travel package becoming insolvent or entering into liquidation or bankruptcy.
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11. Only one entry per household

One-Eye

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

Town is Wendover/West Wendover in Utah/Nevada.

The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified Indian Scout motorcycle. Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and into the 1960s.