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Innovative Tours
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 Tours to places that are hard to discover, or get to, by yourself
 Itineraries that go into the back regions, beyond the tourist circuits
 Light adventures, cultural immersion, interactive holidays
 Experience, sensitivity and passion
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Where We Go
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 Nature reserves, national parks, wild landscapes, ethnic villages and pastoral settings are our favoured locales
 The intersections of culture and nature, especially in coastal or mountainous regions
 Pockets of authentic culture in cities and noisy places
 Customised tours within the parameters of our stomping ground and conscience
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Artists’ Forays
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Learn practical photography in exotic photo-tours led by a pro travel photographer
Gather wild or cultivated foods, and have fun cooking authentic Asian dishes
Paint inspiring milieus in water-colours - or on canvas - with an art teacher
 Craft Asian accessories or implements from bamboo, rattan, and other natural materials
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PANDA TREKKING
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The Min Mountains are the stronghold of giant pandas – home to about 70 percent of all wild pandas – and in this route we visit remote mountains where pandas live blissfully. We also soak up the cultural attractions: Buddhist temples, quaintly exotic ethnic villages, and even take a pilgrims’ trail to a Buddhist holy mountain.
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TIBETAN TRIBES
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A variety of tribes and clans, each displaying different characteristics in architecture and customs and dialect, are scattered in the mountains at the eastern fringes of the Tibetan plateau – we visit a fantastic variety of Tibetan villages in the dramatic mountains at the eastern flank of the Himalayas.
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SAND SEA SAFARI
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Visit the remote and bleak black mountains at the centre of the Sahara Desert, as well as the most spectacular Roman ruins outside Italy, and other incredible sights such as ancient oasis towns and bustling old cities in a land-journey of longer than 3,000km.
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ALTAY DISCOVERY
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In the Altay Mountains that straddle four countries – China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia – central Asia reveals itself in taiga forests, pristine lakes, tumbling rivers, Mongolian herders in yurts, and the legendary Tuwa who live in log shacks. This route also passes through desert with ochre-coloured mountains, ancient rock art, and brackish lakes that teem with birds and fishes.
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SICHUAN LOOP
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Experience Sichuan’s impressive diversity in our popular loop tour. Our passage takes us to one of the highest mountains in the world, to the vastness of the Tibetan plateau, to fog-shrouded peasant villages in subtropics, and even to an old industrial town – a journey to the heart of old China.
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MARINER TRIBES
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Join fishermen tribes in the dazzling Calamian Islands, exploring or staying in their villages of bamboo huts, and joining them in their outrigger canoes as they go fishing in rich coral reefs. And experience the magic of natural tropical isles, whey you can sleep in deserted beaches under skies laden by stars.
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THE TAKIN TRAIL
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Follow the mystical takins in their annual migration to grasslands at high mountain ridges, where the takins join the monal pheasants in their mountain-top home – a place where nature is pure. The intrigue is complemented by a chance to stay in a peasants’ farmhouse down in the valleys.
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DUGONG MOMENTS
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Pristine beaches, impressive coral gardens, azure seas, seafaring tribes, rainforest lagoons and seafood galore are some of the things that await you on an island-hopping trip that plays out in the north of Palawan, one of the top destinations for tropical-island escapades.
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HORNBILL TRAILS
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The Kelabit Highlands have some of the richest rainforest left in Southeast Asia. Nature diversity is matched by human intrigue: the two most illustrious ethnic groups are the Kelabits, some of whom continue to live in communal longhouses, and the Penan, who hunt in the forest with blowpipes and spear.
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VULTURES & YAKS
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Travel among dramatic landscapes and cultures that make western China a hotspot for cultural and natural evolution. The contrasts are endless, and the human geography is reflected in the terrain: here sits one of the largest peat wetlands in the world and here sits one of the world’s most eminent Buddhist monasteries.
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