China’s bustling financial capital offers futuristic skyline that makes New York almost feel like a village. Make a point to visit Shanghai’s Urban Planning Exhibition Hall to check out the architectural wonders expected to be completed over the next decade. But aside the Bund, Shanghai’s famed colonial-era street and tour of emporium-lined Nanjing or Huai […]
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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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Varanasi known to the devout Hindu as Kashi, is said to have been founded by Shiva, Lord of the Universe, and destructor of the Evil. Its one of the oldest living cities in the world, as also one of the most important pilgrimage sites in India. Its principal attraction is the long string of ghats
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At dawn visit the Taj Mahal in Agra, the most extravagant monument ever built for love. This wonder in white marble was built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jehan in memory of his wife Mumtaz in the year 1631. It took 22 years and 20,000 craftsmen and laborers to complete the construction of this historic tomb
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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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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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About 500 yards east of the Decameron beach resort is a cluster of beach properties. Nestled among them, overgrown in weeds and coastal scrub jungle sits abandoned Manuel Noriega’s beach house, a vacation home of the former head of Panama’s secret police and a former CIA operative that US later brought to trial and arrested
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If you’re planning to visit Coiba Island, Panama’s largest island and premiere national park, a home of astounding marine life that includes some two dozen species of dolphin, humpback whales as well as variety of species of crocodiles, turtles, lizards, snakes and scarlet mecaws, you will likely come to Santa Catalina to hire a boat to
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Nata is a sleepy town about half an hour from Penonome, Cocle Province capital. It’s main attraction is its church. A classic Spanish colonial church with a fine colonial facade and a remarkable interior. Completed in 1522, it’s one of the oldest in Panama. Its intricately carved altars, namely the altar of the Virgin with sculpted
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