Ten Days in China for $999
Savvy travelers with their eyes on Asia had to blink twice this week when Friendly Planet Travel, one of the Internet’s leading group travel providers, unveiled their ultra-low-cost Taste of China vacation deal. The package, starting at just $999, visits three of China’s most dynamic and culturally awe-inspiring cities: Beijing, Xi’an, and Shanghai. The trip includes round-trip airfare from Los Angeles via Air China; all ground transfers; all intra-China flights; superior and deluxe hotel accommodations; daily breakfast; four lunches; and comprehensive sightseeing with a local, English-speaking expert guide. Yet, all of these fine features are included in the lowest-priced China vacation package available from the U.S.
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Mountain Biking in Cambodia
In a remote village nestled in the foothills of Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, former illegal loggers and endangered wildlife poachers are turning to mountain biking to provide a more sustainable income.
Established with the assistance of Wildlife Alliance (formerly Wild Aid), an NGO (Live and Learn) working to protect the area’s endangered wildlife, and in partnership with Asia Adventures, a Cambodian-based adventure tour company, the villagers of Chi Pat have set up a community-based ecotourism project featuring Cambodia’s first off-road mountain bike tours into one of the region’s most important, and little explored, wilderness areas.
Being based in Chi Pat, accessible by a 2-hour boat ride through mangrove forests, intrepid mountain bikers leave the dusty dirt roads of the village and are soon spinning along old logging routes, a mix of double-track and single-track undulating trails that the surrounding vegetation is reclaiming, splashing through streams and wading across shallow rivers.
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