A Different Morocco with Sue Buckle 2024. Book now

Morocco
17 Days | 11 - 27 Sep, 2024 - Limited places available $AUD6878 TBC. per person, twin share, ex Casablanca. Along the 'Road of the 1000 Kasbahs'. "I have visited Morocco several times over the past ten years, and I'm still impressed by the natural beauty, stunning architecture, and sublime infusion of past and impressive culture evident in arts and crafts still practised to...
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Textiles and Culture of Sumba and Flores. Small group. Few tourists. Great ikat.

Sumba Weaver
17 Days | 16 June - 02 July, 2024 $AUD7621. per person, ex Denpasar. Our Group and their Colourful Bus. Julie Ryder, well respected indigo dyer, textile artist and weaver, invites you to discover the textile villages of “unknown” Sumba and Flores with their strong cultural practices, world class ikat and cotton weaving, incorporating indigenous imagery woven on back strap lo...
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Textiles of Thailand & Laos with Valerie Kirk 2025

16 Days | 21 January - 05 February, 2025 $US3,640/$AU5760* per person, joining in Chiang Mai, concluding in Vientiane. "I invite you to join with me as we travel from the cultural centre of Chiang Mai, in Northern Thailand, across the Mekong into the beautiful country of Laos, the home for many minority people who still produce and wear colourful fabrics using generations' old tech...
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Textiles, Craft, Arts and History of ‘Four Stans’.

27 Days | 22 Aug - 17 Sep, 2024. $AU9,763 joining in Almaty, end in Tashkent. Bookings coming in. Places available. Our small group journey begins in Kazakhstan, through Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, then to the Silk Road towns found in Uzbekistan. Our journey celebrates the famous textile and other crafts fostered by the crossroads of the famous Silk Road, sitting between Western China and the C...
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Textiles of Japan 2025 with Valerie Kirk

Japan textiles
14 Days | May 2025 bookings open. $AUD8771 aprox pp, joining and concluding in Osaka. Learning about silk production and weaving preparation Apart from textiles, Japan has profound skills in many other crafts and we will witness some of these from sword making, ceramics to cooking. We also see glorious scenery, magnificent ancient buildings – temples, palaces, shrines and more. ...
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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 ones toil in forests. In Myanmar, as in all Asian elephant countries, the latter are discarded when forestry ceases or modern machines are employed. Throughout, elephant camps and sanctuaries have been created to rescue abandoned elephants and to provide as close as possible a ...
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Textile tours around the world – 2024-25

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Textiles of Japan with Valerie Kirk.

30 May - 12 June, 2025.
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Small group and tailored travel

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A Different Morocco with Sue Buckle

This is my first day. I am sitting in the courtyard of the riad we are staying in at Rabat, sipping mint tea! Truly pinch me...it is wonderful and already everything I had hoped and more. Just the walk through the alleyways past the potted geraniums and cats and glances of Moroccan architecture are enough for you to stop breathing! Karen P
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