The following guest post is from Alexander Barrett, who recently published This is Shanghai, a guide to living in the world’s most populous city. Alexander is a writer and illustrator who is constantly baffled by the human experience. From his home in Shanghai, China, he uses ink and words to try to make sense of […]
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West Timor Travel Official name: West Timor, or Nusa Tenggara Timur Location: West Timor is part of the province of East Nusa Tenggara, situated eat of Java and north of Australia. Noteworthy facts: West Timor shares the island of Timor with independent East Timor (Timor Leste). Up until a few generations ago, headhunting was
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The following post is a special guest post from Mike Swig of SwigMeetsWorld.com. Mike is an American travel writer, photographer and recent MBA graduate. He has traveled to over 55 countries around the world and documents his adventure along the way. Flash to the Past Venturing to Dongmyo, Gwangjang, and Seun for the
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The following is a guest post from Magy and Mr. Shushtari – two travelers using all kinds of transportation, but mainly hitchhiking on an overland journey from Bulgaria through Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and to the mountains of Kashmir, India. You can read about their journey at: magickervan.com Journeying to Great Himalayan National Park: Sleeping where God Manu – the creator of
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Photo of the Week: The Registan in Samarkand The Registan is undoubtedly the center of tourism in modern Uzbekistan, but long ago on the historic Silk Road than ran from modern-day China to the Middle East and Europe the city of Samarkand was also one of the very centers of the intellectual and religious world.
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In the East Rift Valley in eastern Taiwan there is a paddy field, so vast and so mesmerizingly beautiful that the road that the main road that traverses it is called “the green road of paradise”. Sandwiched by majestic mountains, this sea of immaculate green fields is situated in Chishang Township. Chishang has made a
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Introducing: Bisket Jatra Festival in Nepal Most of the year a quiet and car-free escape into a historical center of power of the Kathmandu Valley, for over a week surrounding the Nepalese New Year the town of Bhaktapur becomes a pulsing center of music and dancing and chariot pulling and religious fervor. On the last
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Photo of the Week: Turkmenistan’s Monumental Marble Capital The name ‘Turkmenistan’ for most people brings to mind fiery craters in the desert or maybe the cult of personality surrounding former president Turkmenbashi, if indeed it conjures up anything at all. Very few people have any conception of the capital city Ashgabat, an inexplicable city
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What it’s Like In Taiwan I started this column to cut through the fluff of travel writing which paints everything as a magical experience. For this exercise I wanted to simply give readers an idea of what it was like to be on the ground in a particular place. So far we’ve shared what it’s like in Tokyo, Luang Prabang, Dubai,
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Introducing: Ashlan-Fuu We’ve told you before about 8 Reasons to Visit Kyrgyzstan and 11 Things to Do in Bishkek but in all honesty most travelers don’t list ‘amazing food’ as one of their highlights from a trip through the ‘Stans. Drinking alcoholic horse milk and eating sheeps’ brain are good fun (and great stories!), to be sure, but
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