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VIETNAM is becoming a travel hot spot in spite of itself. It has no monuments or cultural sites on the scale of those you will find in Thailand and Cambodia. Ha Lon Bay, is its only major geographic attraction. It's not a place that will dazzle and amaze you. What Vietnam and its people will do is charm you. |
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| Rajasthan: Rural and Regal |
In Rajasthan Province, the opulence of the old India of the Maharajahs is in dramatic contrast to the simple existence of the Bishnoi peoples, whose lives have been attuned for millennia to the natural demands of the starkly beautiful but unforgiving desert land in which they live. |
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For the traveler new to India, a good starting place is in the northern highlands along the border with the Himalayan kingdoms and China. Once the watering places of the British Raj escaping the intense heat of the plains, the hill stations are a cool and pleasant area from which to begin a tour of this fascinating land. |
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| GOA: There's Good News and Bad |
Located on the southwest coast of the Indian subcontinent, Goa is a former Portuguese colony that became famous as a hippie hang out in the 60's and 70's and has recently become one of the largest charter tourist destinations in the world. |
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| Sacred Rivers of India – The Ganges |
Two photojournalists make an unforgettable pilgrimage along the length of India's two most sacred rivers, recording what they see with the penetrating eye of the camera lens. Their tale is also about the despoiling of these holy waterways by human ignorance and insensitivity. |
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| Sacred Rivers of India – The Yamuna |
Two photojournalists continue their unforgettable pilgrimage along the length of India's two most sacred rivers, recording what they see with the penetrating eye of the camera. Their tale is also about the despoiling of these holy waterways by human ignorance and insensitivity. |
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Kathmandu, the capital of the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal has held exotic connotations for outsiders all through the ages. These connotations cover an amazingly wide range of fields; be it the landscape, religions, politics or even local handicrafts. Now, even in this once remote corner of Asia, times have changed.
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| Sri Lanka: After the Tsunami |
Devastated by one of nature's most potent forces, Sri Lanka is rebuilding its damaged shores. One of this lovely island nation's most important sources of income is tourism, and its people want you to know that Sri Lanka's most interesting attractions are inland and were not directly affected in any way by the tsunami. |
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| Kerala: Southern India's Eden |
India's southernmost state of Kerala is known as "god's own country" to its inhabitants. It's difficult to disagree with that description.
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No longer forbidden, the fabled home of China's emperors for five centuries is now called the Palace Museum. Its grandeur somewhat diminished, this magnificent city within a city remains a testament to the splendid civilization of ancient China and a contrast to the burgeoning industrial giant around it. |
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| Sri Lanka: A Place Like No Other |
Here is a country that is a microcosm of almost everything that can be found in Southeast Asia to interest tourism but without the negative sights that leave some travelers to the region in culture shock. |
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| Xi'an: Home Of China's Clay Army |
Xi'an (pronounced She-ahn) in central China, now a fairly modest city by Chinese standards, was the first dynastic capital of China and remained so for more than 1,000 years. Today it is possibly the richest archaeological area in all of China and the site of one of the twentieth century's most spectacular finds, the buried terra-cotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi, by some accounts, the most powerful man in the world in his day. |
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| Sabah: A Land Below The Wind |
Malaysia is a land that stirs the imagination. On the Island of Borneo, 400 miles from the mainland, is the East Malaysian state of Sabah, known as the gateway to Borneo's wildlife. The reality matches the image, but changes are coming rapidly. |
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| Brunei Darussalam: The Abode Of Peace |
One of the last absolute monarchies on Earth, the Sultanate of Brunei is moving with style into the twenty-first century |
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There still is a place in the world where you may have to step past a genuine snake charmer and his bobbing hooded cobra as you get out of your taxi to enter your five-star Sheraton Hotel. That place is India, and, in an increasingly homogenized world, it's interesting to note that this country has not lost its exoticism as it acquires the trappings of the computer age. |
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| Southern China's Goat City And Guilin |
Old Canton (Guangzhou) has been going about its business and has been associated with trade routes passing through its province for centuries. The origins of Guangzhou in Southern China are not specifically known, but perhaps the fable of its beginnings recounted to every school child tells us something. |
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