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In Search of the Yangtze

What can you discover when you just follow a river to see where it goes? This 3-week tour follows the Yangtze upstream from the sea at Shanghai to the remote upper reaches of the Tibetan Plateau.
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Yangtze, Heart of China

This 2-week tour follows the Yangtze upstream, and captures the essence of the 'heartland' of China focusing on Shanghai, the Three Gorges and the beautiful scenery and minorities of Yunnan province..
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From Duck to Dim Sum: On the Trail of Chinese Cuisine

Follow the road from wheat-based cuisine to rice-based cuisine and find out where all your favorite Chinese dishes come from by visiting the famous cuisine regions and eating delicious food..
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Escape from Siberia Quest Series

Follow the walk to freedom of gulag escapee, Slavomir Rawicz. From beautiful Lake Baikal, through Mongolia, Beijing, Xian, the Chinese desert, Tibet, Nepal to India, this tour will explore the most exotic worlds.
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The Jade Express (Moscow to Beijing)

Across the hinterland of Siberia, sapphire Lake Baikal, wide-open pastures of Mongolia with a final descent into the Middle Kingdom (China), we travel by boat, jeep, horse and camel, but we also rocket through remote lands on a 'jade express', the dark-green Trans-Siberian Railway.
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Journey to the Roof of the World (Beijing to Kathmandu)

From the Chinese stately courts of the Forbidden City, we venture, as caravans once did, into the 'land of barbarians', the desert regions at the beginning of the Silk Road. We then climb to a sacred land of ornate monasteries and vast mountain vistas earning the moniker, the 'Roof of the World' (Tibet). We surmount the Himalayas and descend to the cobbled alleyways of Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Himalayan Tributaries (Kathmandu to Kolkata)

From the monkey temples and durbars of enchanting Kathmandu, we meander through the pastoral life of rolling foothills, picturesque villages and colorful people living in the shadow of the mighty Himalaya. From the jagged-peak views we raft to lush gorges before reaching the rainforests and exotic wildlife of Chitwan. Then it's on to India's most mystical ancient enclaves of Varanasi and Bodhgaya before sampling the Bengali culture of Kolkata.
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