Further afield city break options?

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Most resources I've found cover European cities or the other obvious ones (London, New York), but if you had a week to go somewhere alone in January or February, £1k budget for flight/hotels (absolute max) and had no concerns about length of flight, where would you go?

£1k is getting me an awful lot further than expected in late January, so it's opened my mind to options I've not even considered (as examples, 4 nights in Hong Kong or Tokyo in fairly decent hotels in good locations with direct flights are do-able).

I've done San Francisco, LA, Vegas, New York, Boston, Toronto and most of mainland Europe that interests me, and Scandanavia/Iceland are strictly off limits as my wife is Norwegian so wants to explore those places with me and our son when he gets a bit older.

An asian city is particularly appealing but I'm also open to any photo experience/tours that can be done for less than £1k (that don't involve boats).
 
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Given the topic of this place you may need to avoid many of the asian cities unless you do not suffer from GAS otherwise your budget may not work ;)

Know it is not far afield but have you done much of Ireland?
How about S Africa?
 
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Moscow? Not as silly as it sounds! If you go, give yourself time to sort the visa out, it can take a while!
 
hong kong

Or closer to home, i did a weekend in Istanbul not long ago and loved it to bits.
 
Marrakech is a photographers dream, cheap too - you wouldn't need all your budget too.

If you haven't been to NYC you should, it's fab, as is Tokyo - both equally amazing for photography.

I tend to think that going any further really deserves a lot longer than a few days.

edit: just read your post properly, you've been to NYC.

Of all Asian cities I think Hanoi is probably my fave, I'd love to go back.
 
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Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Might be a bit of a known quantity but I like Bruges.

I'd fancy Moscow but massively put off by a GF of mine suffering awful racism there, apparently on the rise.
 
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Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Might be a bit of a known quantity but I like Bruges.

I'd fancy Moscow but massively put off by a GF of mine suffering awful racism there, apparently on the rise.
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The Moscow police were on a money making scheme last time I was there.

Ask to see passport, find problem, 10 US$ discretely passed, problem disappeared.

St Petersburg is a much nicer city.

Cairo is always interesting, Istanbul similar but toned down. My first choice would be Cairo, then hop on a train to Luxor for a couple of days (or sail down the Nile and camp on the banks, which I did last time). Second, Istanbul to Izmir via Gallipoli, then train back to Istanbul.

If you had 2 weeks, cheap flight to Vic Falls, then road trip to Chobe and Okovango.

All of those I've done for less than a grand.
 
Thanks guys, sorry I missed the responses to this.

I've done NYC 9 times, would still love to go again but desperately trying to do something new instead! I've been looking at Iceland, out of season (and super cheap as a result, less than £450 for 5 days) so would have loads left over for tours etc whilst there, but it would be a massive risk with regards to getting vaguely agreeable weather.

I'm struggling to shake off Hong Kong to be honest, lots of guaranteed photo opportunities and 5 days comes in nicely at £750 with a pretty decent hotel, which is a lot cheaper than I was expecting.
 
Hong Kong would be the winner for me

Spent 2 1/2 years there
 
That's a no brainier! Zanzibar and either stay in Stone Town for the week or split it between there and the east coast.
 
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