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Home > Travel Themes > Asia & India Travel Articles
Welcome
to the Travel with a Challenge Theme Page bringing together
feature articles in our collection about train and land journeys in China,
India, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Go hiking in China, watercolor painting
in Vietnam or take a train in India's Himalayas or Southeast Asia.
This is one of a series of theme
pages to showcase popular articles by regional destination or topic of particular interest to our readers. Enjoy browsing
the entire theme collection!
Click on the images or titles below to enter each richly-illustrated feature story.
Join scuba diver and writer, Doug Olthof, for a whale (shark) of an experience as he discovers the variety and beauty of Thailand's reefs and rocks on a five-day liveaboard dive boat holiday full of delightful surprises. Even if you are not a diver, you won't want to miss these amazing images taken around the Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock.
Readers who love to learn about new volunteer holidays will be delighted with our story about a Darjeeling tea estate learning service option in the foothills of India's Himalaya region. With a variety of volunteer tasks to choose from, this historic estate is a world leader in organic farming and sustainable community living.
Our contributor, Khursheed Dinshaw, takes readers to a wild peacock sanctuary and rural farming area of India where India's national bird thrives, and villagers offer homestays and agri tourism experiences that provide authentic cultural insights for international guests
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 from 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 charming postcard-size watercolor paintings
while describing her adventures.
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.
Helena Zukowski whisks
readers from Singapore through Malaysia to Thailand while sampling the luxurious
trappings and gastronomic delights of Eastern & Orient's restored rail car
service that reflects former colonial expectations.
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!
Check out our other theme pages, clustering richly-illustrated feature articles by travel theme or regional destination: European destinations, Hawaiian Islands articles , Bird and Nature travel articles, Cruise and Train Travel, Mediterranean destinations, Wellness and Spiritual Vacations, Latin America Travel, Volunteer Vacations and South Pacific Vacations.
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