Asia | Art | Culture & Travel

From Himalaya to Gobi desert

Dennis — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:25:37 +0000

This trip provides a chance to witness the huge contrast between the high plateau and the Gobi desert. We will start this trip after visiting the most attractive sites of Lhasa, we take the highest train in the world to Golmud, where we switch to vehicle to experience a dramatic change in both culture and [...]

Tibetan Highlands Express

Dennis — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:51:24 +0000

Blow away the cobwebs of everyday life in one of Asia’s great wildernesses – the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, a fairytale land of snowy mountains, crystal-clear lakes and vast high-altitude plains… Our Tibetan Highlands Express itinerary is an adventure on an epic scale – in just eight days you will travel from Xining, capital of [...]

Mountain Kingdoms of Yunnan

Dennis — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:24:53 +0000

Mountain Kingdoms of Yunnan is a spectacular short itinerary take guests north from Kunming through some of Yunnan’s premier destinations – Dali, Lijiang and Zhongdian – as well as one of the Province’s less well-known gems, Shaxi, and tracks a portion of the ancient tea horse trade route from Yunnan to Tibet. With the comforts of [...]

Mystical Sichuan

Dennis — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:02:42 +0000

The Mystical Sichuan is an excellent introduction to this glorious region of China. This itinerary will give you a taste of nearly everything this region has to offer; spectacular mountains and nature reserves, exciting mountain roads, splendid highways, Tibetan people and their charming dwellings, Sichuanese & Tibetan cuisine, chortens and prayer flags, all set in [...]

Floating Lodge, Cambodia

Dennis — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:35:41 +0000

Away from the tourist trail to ancient civilisations there is another country . . . a land of unspoilt virgin forest, rare orchids and fragrant frangipani, the startling colours and calls of birds of paradise, secretive jungle creatures and a perfumed air of peace and solitude. This ecological miracle deserves an environmentally friendlyresort that captures the imagination [...]

Ryokan, Japan

Dennis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:28:08 +0000

One of Japan’s most beautiful and exclusive ryokens or traditional inns, the Iwaso Ryoke is also one of the oldest, built over 150 years ago. Iwaso is situated in a very beautiful part of Momijidani Park, and when it was first constructed the owner built a tea shop and planted the area with maples trees. Iwaso [...]

Treehouses, China

Dennis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:05:50 +0000

The Sanya Nanshan Treehouses perch in the top of huge old tamarind trees on the edge of a beautiful beach and overlooking a new Buddhist and ecological national park where temples and pagodas are nestled amongst the botanical gardens. The huge windows also look out onto Nanshan Mountain that sits back from the coastline behind [...]

Capsule Hotel, Japan

Dennis — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:59:50 +0000

Working late and back in the office early tomorrow? Had a bit too much to drink to get home safely? In Tokyo that problem has been solved with the invention of the ‘capsule hotel’. Those two words many not make much sense when used together but they mean just what they imply – a hotel [...]

The Fasting Buddha, Pakistan

MeiMei — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:09:13 +0000

‘The extreme realism in the treatment of the Buddha’s emaciated body is characteristic of Gandharan interests but not commonly employed in the rest of India, where there is a much stronger tendency to idealize and generalize in the depiction of deified beings. The sinews and bones of the Buddha’s body are revealed beneath the barest [...]

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan

MeiMei — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:05:16 +0000

The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum is the only museum in the world that systematically collects and exhibits Asian modern and contemporary art. The works in the collection of the museum are not imitation of Western art or repetitions of traditional works. Instead they seek to overcome the existing framework of art, being made by artists [...]