Intentionally Different Tours
Textiles and Culture of Sumba and Flores. Small group. Few tourists. Great ikat.
17 Days | 16 June - 02 July, 2026 $AUD7621. per person, ex Denpasar. Successfully completed. Stay tuned for 2026. Our Group and their Colourful Bus. Julie Ryder, well respected i...
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Textiles of Thailand & Laos with Valerie Kirk 2026
16 Days | 21 January - 05 February, 2026 $US3,640/$AU5760* per person, joining in Chiang Mai, concluding in Vientiane. "I invite you to join with me as we travel from the cultural cent...
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Textiles, Craft, Arts and History of ‘Four Stans’.
27 Days | 28 Aug - 23 Sep, 2025. $AU9,843 joining in Almaty, end in Tashkent. Bookings coming in. Places available. Our small group journey begins in Kazakhstan, through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan,...
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Textiles of Japan 2026 with Valerie Kirk
14 Days | May 2026 bookings open. $AUD8771 approx pp, joining and concluding in Osaka. Expressions of interest for 2026 appreciated. Learning about silk production and weaving preparati...
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Elephants of Katha
Throughout Asia elephants were both sacred and workers. Sacred ones live as sculptural edifices in temples, while worker...
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Japan and the People you Meet
Japan is a place of deep craft skills and where the very contemporary meets the very traditional is such a way that they...
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Japan and the unexpected