Madagascar is an island nation located in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa. At 226,658 square miles, Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. Madagascar has a tropical climate with a diverse terrain. There are lagoons hidden amongst the coastal beaches with rivers flowing from the mountains and grasslands and […]
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Travel Time – Sanqing Mountain
Sanqing (san ching) Mountain, China is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in JiangXi (jang she) province. In this gentle, sub-tropical climate about 80 percent of Sanqing Mountain is covered by primeval forests with ancient pine trees twisted by high winds, 100 species of azaleas, bamboo and ironwood trees. There are more than 2,500 kinds […]
Travel Time – Xitang
I’ll bet you didn’t know that Tom Cruise and I have something in common. We have both walked the covered corridors of the ancient river town, Xitang (pronounced she-tan). Well, actually, he ran. You know, in Mission Impossible III. No, it wasn’t a set but a real place. Originally built on the southern Yangtze River […]
Travel Time: Eco-Tourism
Eco-tourism is all about traveling to unspoiled parts of the world and maintaining that pristine state by doing no harm. That usually means whatever goes in, comes out including all manner of human detritus. Sometimes even your own bodily waste must be removed so that the footprint you leave is as minimal as possible. A […]
Travel Time
Are you looking for a way to be useful in the world? Do you want to give back by making the lives of others better? Do you like to take the less traveled road? Then volunteer travel may be for you! What is volunteer travel, you ask? An unknown writer wrote, "When you see the […]