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India’s Sacred Geography: Religious Pilgrimage in the Subcontinent

India    30.05.2017

Over thousands of years, an elaborate network of pilgrimage routes has evolved in India, inter-connecting the great religious centres of the subcontinent. And thanks to the ease of modern travel, these are more popular than ever. The most r…

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A Guide to Myanmar’s Ancient Capital City of Bagan

Myanmar    23.05.2017

Myanmar’s incredible history has made it one of the most unique places to visit on the planet. Invasion, immigration and colonisation have all helped to create a diverse country but it was the Kingdom of Pagan that has had the biggest impac…

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Asia's Big Six

China    09.05.2017

The term ‘Big Five’ was coined by game hunters in Africa to denote the most difficult animals to hunt on foot. Subsequently adopted by safari companies, it now serves as a tick-list of must-see species in countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Sou…

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A Lifetime of Discoveries

India    25.04.2017

For aficionados of Indian monuments, architectural historian George Michell and his archaeologist partner, John Fritz, need no introduction. For the past forty years or so, the pair have been documenting ancient sites across the country, an…

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Naadam Festival: Summer Games in a Sea of Grass

Mongolia    18.04.2017

Summer is a blissful time to explore the great grasslands of Mongolia. For a few fleeting months between mid-June and September, the numbing, sub-arctic cold is banished. The snow recedes, and the rivers flow crystal clear, while larks soar…

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Highlights of Mongolia

Mongolia    17.04.2017

With its vast expanses of steppes, desert and taiga, Mongolia encompasses some of the most pristine wilderness on earth. Landscapes rather than monuments provide the main focus for visitors here. In the north, a band of wild, pine-forested…

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Fighting for Survival: Saving the Orangutan in Borneo

Malaysia    10.04.2017

Orangutans – the ginger-furred ‘Old Man of the Forest’ – number among the rarest mammals on the planet. Only two vestigial populations survive, in remote tropical enclaves on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Numbers have been decimated in…

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The Wonders of Borneo Wildlife

Malaysia    09.04.2017

When dreaming about Borneo you conjure up images of vast, pristine rainforests full of undiscovered flora and fauna, lofty mountain peaks, unrivalled diving spots in emerald seas and exotic indigenous tribes with blowpipes at the ready. And…

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Ladakh and the Hemis Festival

India    27.03.2017

I’ll never forget the one and only time I’ve ever ridden on the roof of a bus. I was a 21-year-old student, travelling on a shoestring around Kashmir and Ladakh, in India’s northwest Himalaya. The bus in question was crammed to bursting poi…

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If you like India, you will love China

China    20.03.2017

When I was a student back in the 1980s, there were Indophiles and there were Sinophiles, and ne’er the twain would meet. People were either passionate about India, or China. But never both. It was almost as if the two Asian giants were too…

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Tea in China

China    17.03.2017

Wars have been fought over it, and the fortunes of empires decided by its trade. But the humble tea plant, Carmellia sinensis, was for thousands of years an exclusively Chinese commodity, grown, drunk and sold according to rules first set d…

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A guide to the must-see sights in Shimla

India    14.03.2017

The lengths the British were prepared to go to in order to escape the rigours of the Indian summer must have been a source of amazement to their subjects. Each year, the entire administration of the Raj, their families and households, used…

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