When I heard the words penal colony, I was having visions of Papillon and Les Misrable, tortured images of the innocent Jean Valjean, hauling rocks and being beaten by sadistic guards. The Philippines wouldn’t be the first country I would …
Category: Asia
GTTP Helps Students Discover Travel Career Opportunities by Elizabeth A. Fluke
With economic globalization on the march, countries are jockeying to take advantage of booming international travel. Through a fascinating non-profit program, nearly one million high school students in growing nations like Brazil, Hungary, Russia and South Africa have had the …
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Shackled by the Neck by Antonio Graceffo
The Burmese civil war, often viewed as a genocide committed against Burma’s tribal minorities, has been raging off and on for a period of nearly fifty years. Estimates claim that as many as two million refugees, many of the tribal …
Try Georgia’s Northern Mountains For fun and Excitement
Real mountains in Georgia? Fun and excitement in those magnificent mountains? For first-time or even seasoned travelers, the answer to both questions is a resounding YES. Even for people like us, who live in the rugged regions of the Rockies, …
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Special People Koji Kobayashi: Spreading Peace Through Music by Bonnie and Bill Neely
Koji Kobayashi is a Hiroshima bombing survivor. He was nine years old when he was knocked down right after he entered his school house, which was about two kilometers away from the epicenter. He could see only blinding light at …
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The Peranakan Experience by Hendson Quan
History has it that 500 young men from China ‘s Fujian Province accompanied princess Hang Li Po in the late 1400’s to what is now Malacca on her journey to wed Sultan Mansur Shah. A popular folk lore in Singapore …
A Dominican Adventure by Nicholas J. Klenske
New Zealand may have the title of King of Adventure Sports, but you don’t have to go clear to the ends of the southern hemisphere to find excellent adventure travel options. Cabarete, located on the Dominican Republic’s north coast, is …
Grandma Was a Shaolin Monk Travel All the Way Around the World and You Wind up Back Where You Started by Antonio Graceffo
I was wearing an oversized white cowboy hat, boots, three sizes too big, two pistols, and nothing else. The woman I was with refused to take me to the fair till I put some clothes on. I stomped my foot …
The Muslim Fishermen of Phang Nga by Antonio Graceffo
The four Muslim provinces of southern Thailand Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala, and Satun have made international headlines in recent years do to an extremist insurgency which has left hundreds dead. The bad press emanating from the south has left the rest …
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Visiting Thailand’s Monkeys & Bats Part Two
I spent the entire day trying to get out of Chiang Mai. All flights booked. All trains full, buses too. Finally I chose to go 3rd class, leaving at 6:30am to go for twelve hours to Lopburi (south toward Bangkok) …
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