Travel Quotient’s Blog

A favourite haunt for scholars, painters and calligraphers in the Ming and Qing dynasty, this street is full of art stores selling ancient books, calligraphy paper, books, paintings, ink stones and seals and lots and lots of brushes. Its name ...

Dreaming of a white Christmas, yet you don't want to be constantly freezing in snow? Consider Bhutan. You'll have the snow-capped Himalayan mountains acting as your backdrop, yet the weather over the Christmas season is not so cold that you ...

The next annular solar eclipse happens on 15 January 2010, and Myanmar is one of the best places to view this phenomenal event.   Extracted from the NASA site: "The path of the eclipse begins in Africa and passes through Chad, Central African Republic, ...

Seeking to get away from the discrimination from 'normal' sized people, a community of dwarves have set up their own village in the mountains of Kunming, complete with a police force and fire brigade. The requirement for living in the ...