Edelweiss Village, seemingly teleported from the Alps, sits on the outskirts of Golden, a rural town in British Columbia, not far from Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.
For many South Africans, the quiet and calmness that can be found in the water – one of the rare places with few, if any, human-related threats – has been transformational.
Around 150 years ago, the upstate New York village of Saranac Lake became home to people looking for a cure to a highly contagious disease. Today, its healing legacy lives on.