Welcome to the Travel with a Challenge Theme Page bringing together feature articles in our collection about travel in China, India, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Click on the images or titles below to enter each richly illustrated feature story. This is one of a series of theme pages to showcase articles of special interest to our readers. Enjoy browsing!

Born and raised in India before settling in Canada 30 years ago, Margaret Deefholts shares her lingering passion for her birth country with a ride into the mountains aboard an historic miniature railway chosen by the United Nations in 1999 as a cultural World Heritage Site.

Join travel journalist, Alison Gardner, on an active cultural vacation in Northeastern China as she explores well known and little known sections of the Great Wall of China, as well as its neighboring historic sites, cities and unspoiled countryside. Additional articles with a Great Wall of China theme are hot linked separately below: enjoy our classic images from Northeastern China, and a rural village encounter.

  Artist and globetrotter, Charlene Brown, shares her solo travel encounter with city and rural life in Vietnam as she documents her vacation in a series of postcard size watercolor paintings.

Travel writer, Margaret Deefholts, introduces readers to northeastern India's women of Meghalaya whose cultural and spiritual influence is a powerful and surprising feature of their unique community lifestyle.

Explore Hong Kong's colorful history, architecture, accessible nature and vibrant living culture with experts in every field by participating in the Hong Kong Tourist Board's educational Cultural Kaleidoscope and Nature Kaleidoscope programs. They are absolutely free!

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