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Send us your stories of trips around the Asian continent and the Pacific and we will publish them in this section. Together with the text you send us, we will highlight your name and, if you want us to, we will also create a link to your website or e-mail. You can also send us a photograph to illustrate your story.

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Thailand.

Loy Krathong, the Festival of Light in Thailand

The ancient beliefs of Thailand hold that there are superior spirits that live all over the place, in rivers, in trees and in mountains. In Thailand there is a great amount of rites unknown by westerners.

India.

Varanasi in search of eternal rest

Western culture ceased to love and understand death long ago. Death is seen as ungrateful. However, there are places in the world where the passage from life to death is cause for celebration, not sadness.

Mongolia.

The Orkhon Valley, marks that disappear from the steppe

The cultural legacy of the Mongol people comes from the meadows, close to River Orkhon. In this natural landscape of singular beauty and heritage of humanity, the legendary Karakorum was settled in the 13th and 14th centuries, ancient capital of the Mongol Empire founded by Gengis Khan. Nowadays, when there are only marks of the city and the heroic deeds of the fierce Mongol warriors are remembered and the nomad sheperds still pasture their cattle in these meadows.

China.

Shangri-La exists

In 1993 the English writer James Hilton published the novel Last Horizon, where he described a fiction paradise called Shangri-La. Since then, several locations in Asia and other corners of the world have been called with this suggestive mystical name as a tourist attraction. However, the capital of the Autonomous Tibetan Prefecture of Diqing, also known in Chinese as Zhongdian and in Tibetan as Gyalthang, deserves the definition of Garden of Eden.

All of them.

The ancient paths of the Silk Road

In the 2nd century of our time, to talk about the East involves talking about the luxury of fabrics, the golden veils of the desert, the pleasant smell of perfumes, or the exotic flavour of spices. The East was a land that not many knew, and that many yearned for. The Silk Route was, for eighteen centuries, the main connection point between Europe and that faraway East. The route was extended from the doors to Europe to Xi’an, through 9000 Kilometres decorated with cities, deserts and impassable paths, continuously circulated to transport this soft and select fabric called silk by many.

Cambodia.

Angkor Wat: Wispers in the Temple

The holy temples of Angkor occupy 400 square kilometres of Cambodian jungle, forming the architectonical most extense and monumental group of Asia. Declared Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and considered the trace of the most influential and richest nation of Southeast Asia between the 9th and 13th centuries, Angkor became the symbol of the Khremer people and it even appears on current Cambodian notes. Lets discover the story of the biggest religious complex of the world.

Indonesia.

Bali, island of traditions

The Hindu ancient legend of Ramayana tells the story of Rama, legitimate heir of the kingdom of Ayodya was exiled and condemned to exile of 14 years for the confabulations of one of his father’s wives. Together with his wife, Sita, and one of his brothers, Laksmana, he was confined in the forest, where Sita was kidnapped by Rawana, King of Lanka, King of the Devil, and hidden in the palace of the kingdom of Alengka.

Cambodia.

"The city of the Temple"

And the temple became a forest. The trees embraced the stones not to ever be separated. This way, far from time, the biggest temple of the world remains. This is how Ankor Wat survives.

Sri Lanka.

A journey without a compass

Marco Polo affirmed that Ceylon, current Sri Lanka, was the most beautiful island of the world. Set on the furthest point of the Indian Ocean, opposite of the coast of South India, legends and history play hide and seek on an island that, with its poetic form of tear, invites travellers to lose track of time and space. Photo Gallery

Myanmar.