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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 ...

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

India a land of Surprises. In a mud hut this poised young women is weaving a man’s cloth on the banks of the Brahmaputra river. She greets us enthuastically and is happy to show us her loom and weaving. One of the joys of travelling from Kolkata on a boat belonging to the Assam Bengal Navigation Co is that you are avoiding the road traffic and visiting small villages which are remote and only 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 Okayama prefect...

17 days |  17 June - 03 July 2018 $4935, per person twin share. Join Christine Pearson and discover the textile villages of "unknown" Sumba, famous for strong cultural practices and world class ikat and cotton weaving. Flores showcases their unique fabrics together with stunning scenery. For more info visit http://intent.id.au/textiles-of-sumba-and-flores/