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You don't expect to experience the ways of William Morris in Japan but we did! We travel through amazing scenery extensively in the Japan countryside and we think that the Arts and Crafts village is one of the unexpected treasures of our Japan tour. The bus had to manuvre very tight meanderings to get us through tight valleys and waterways to arrive at a most engaging place. A day of cra...

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 ...

Japan is a place of deep craft skills and where the very contemporary meets the very traditional is such a way that they work in tandem with each other.  On our  Japan Textile Tour mixes all of this together and includes several textile/craft workshops, including one at Saori no Mori, the home of free style weaving. But another workshop was at a small, mountainous village in  rural ...