They may be small (c. 66 square miles), but the Banda Islands have a very prominent position in world history through the spice trade,...

‘Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.’ It is as well that E.M.Forster’s “A Room with a View” was not set in Laos,...

Continued from ‘Journey to Guge – Part I’ Groups of Tibetan antelope are plentiful in some valleys. Black Necked Cranes can be seen in...

In May we set out from Lhasa on a 15 day overland trip west across the Tibetan Plateau to the edge of the Himalaya and the Indian border...

Zhangjiajie Forest Park in Northern Hunan province is a large sandstone area where erosion has produced striking sceneries of vertical...