The popular tourism destination is Thailand! Good weather, nice people and this country is very familiar with the western tourist, so traveling around here is easy. The hardest part is getting here. So after a mind, leg, and butt-numbing, 20-hour …
Category: Asia
Discovering The Chinese Way by Julie Thompson
“The ancient building is renovating. Excuse me for bringing trouble to you,” read the apologetic sign on a building in the centre of Beijing. For Faith Whitell, aged 66, of GinGin, Western Australia, it was just yet another example of …
When Traveling In Europe, Follow the Rising Sun by Robert A. Kendrick
The Japanese are an ingenious and industrious people – worthy of admiration. We can’t help but recognize their accomplishments in auto manufacturing and electronics, in which they currently appear to have outdistanced the rest of the world. But, TRAVEL is …
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The Skyclad Jain monks in Kundalpur by Manuela Pop
During our four months trip in India my husband and I stopped in Khajuraho to visit the Erotic Temples. There, we heard of a small village Kundalpur, where hundreds of Jain Monks will gather in a two-day festival to celebrate …
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Ashland: Scenery, History Plus Shakespeare by Larry and Gail Taylor
Years ago tourists came to Ashland, Oregon, for the waters; now they come to see the plays. From the early 1900s, Ashland locals were aware that the mineral waters bubbling up from Lithia Springs just outside town were beneficial in …
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Fine Pieces of China(Part 2) by Mary McIntosh
The next morning, tightly clasping my “now-working” camera., I turned to speak to John. He and his wife had traveled from Cincinnati. “Did you hear my camera’s working now?” John had suggested I try new batteries. “I’ll be able to …
Eating Vegetarian In a Foreign Land by Prasad Mahabal
I’m a software consultant by profession. I started ‘serious’ travelling for professional reasons at the age of 23 (in 1994) when I went to Hong Kong/South Korea for a business visit for one month. I did not speak Korean and …
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Kick Boxing for Pride and Peanuts by Antonio Graceffo
Muay Thai Fighters in the Sticks of Thailand: When I was a young boxer in the United States, the most I ever made for a fight was US$150 (HK$1,170). And I only got that much because the promoter let the …
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Some Fine Pieces Of China (Part 1) by Mary McIntosh
I had always thought how wonderful it would be to visit China, but even after I started traveling extensively, a trip there seemed beyond my budget. In 1992 I heard of a first-class tour that was quite inexpensive, so I …
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Tsunami Relief in the Form of Community Based Tourism by Antonio Graceffo
“We need to get the word out to the world.” Said Kelly, a volunteer at North Andaman Tsunami Relief. Many people are wondering how they could help the Thailand Tsunami victims. “They could help by just coming as a tourist …
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