Destinations

Silk Road, Chinese Turkestan

Travel to far western end of China, along the ancient Silk Road across the Taklamakhan Desert, via Turfan to Kashgar, from where the Silk Road caravans took the exotic goods from the East to Constantinople and the courts of Europe. In Kashgar and the Chinese Turkestan you’ll mingle among the Uighurs, while the narrow lanes and markets

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Meditation Tours – Om Work

Meditation and Yoga tour in India Himalayas

How to succeed in business: Meditate – a headline from FORTUNE magazine, July, 2007. Yes, business folks, the kind that live on the edge of coping with stress and its self-denial seem to find relief in meditation, once they can master it, to improve their ability to listen and think creatively. Of course nothing new about

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China’s Urban Explosion, Tranquil Guizhou Villages

With the Beijing Olympics only months away, a massive wave of protests is sweeping the country over government landgrabs (Portfolio.com, January 2008). As hyperurbanization is fueling China’s land disputes, that much more one can appreciate a visit to China’s pastoral villages. Although the Olympic Games are certainly China’s drawing card in the coming summer, one should

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