Posts Tagged ‘China’

Across the Roof of the World

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Amar Grover is a travel writer and photographer who has travelled widely in China, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East & North Africa. Recent trips with Explore have included Tibet and China. He writes mainly for the Financial Times, GEOGRAPHICAL Magazine and the Independent on Sunday.

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Alastair interviewed him recently about his trip with Explore on our Across the Roof of the World tour, in China and Tibet. Obviously a stunning journey across a wonderful area, which Amar discusses in detail. A fascinating interview.

Across the Roof of the World

 
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Can we Eclipse you?

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

In case you didn’t know our Eclipse programme is up on the Explore.co.uk website.

Eclipse chasing is apparently very popular, and given the relatively remote location of the best viewing in August 2008 (West of Mongolia, NW China and Siberia), its worth booking as soon as possible. If you’re interested in seeing the Moon blot out the Sun, that is!

Totality - the Moon Eclipses the Sun
Totality – the Moon eclipses the Sun

There are also a couple of other tours which are focused on other astronomical phenomena: a total eclipse of the Moon in Cuba in 2008 and a viewing of the Perseid Meteor shower in the Azores in August 2007.

Hopefully we can get an interview and a little more detail about these tours for April.

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