With the 2018 holiday season in full swing, we’re packing our suitcases and jet-setting off to explore Central America. If you want to start the new year with some serious cultural travel and…
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A cultural traveller’s guide to sightseeing in Shanghai. Things to do, see and experience in China’s fishing village turned modern metropolis.
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Fu Lu Shou, three strange Chinese fellows staring back at me through the museum glass. Their faces are familiar, I have seen them before on cloth, in porcelain and paint. But who…
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As another year of travel adventures draws to a close, I’m packing my suitcase and heading home Downunder for the first time in 18months. If you are fortunate enough to put your feet…
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Chinese New Year rituals are thought to have a significant influence on how the year ahead proceeds. Avoid inauspicious pitfalls with these nine lucky omens for gifting, decorating, eating and celebrating.
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There is barely a culture or a time in history I don’t associate with the expressive, ever stylish and practical hand fan. Whether it is an ancient Egyptian king languishing in the breeze…
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In Chinese culture, these fluffy tufts of meteorological cotton candy have some interesting cultural significance. Having spent some time in China and surrounding nations where the Chinese have historically had a major…
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Don’t you hate it when you get your pagodas crossed with your dagobas?! Well maybe not, but if you’re travelling through East Asia you’ll hear a lot of confusing references and generalised…