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This guide offers the inside scoop on Jeju Island, South Korea. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Greater Than a Tourist - Penang Malaysia, by Tina Thanabalan, offers the inside scoop on Penang. This audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Greater Than a Tourist: Hong Kong, China by Francesca Escarraga offers the inside scoop on Hong Kong. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination. In this audiobook, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your trip. Travel like a local. Slow down and get to know the people and the culture of a place.

Greater Than a Tourist - India by Manidipa Bhattacharyya offers the inside scoop on India. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there's nothing wrong with that, as a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series this book will give you tips and a bunch of ideas from someone who lives at your destination. Here, you'll discover local advice that will help you throughout your stay.

The Chomolungma Diaries is a true story of ordinary people climbing Mount Everest with a commercial expedition, and preparing for the biggest day of their lives. Imagine your life clipped into a narrow line of cord five miles above the Earth, on the world’s most terrifying ridge walk. This book will bring you just a little bit closer to that experience.

Who was Dambijantsan?A Buddhist monk; a freedom fighter for Mongolian independence; the descendant of Amursanaa (1723–1757), the Western Mongol who led the last great uprising against the Qing Dynasty of China; the incarnation of Mahakala, the Buddhist god of war; bandit, torturer, murderer, or evil incarnate? During his lifetime no one was sure who he really was, and even today the controversy about his life continues. Born in what is now the Republic of Kalmykia, part of the Russian Federation, Dambijantsen traveled throughout Tibet, India, and China before arriving in Mongolia in 1890 ...

.......... Gain insights into Indian Way-of-Life ........... ............... and Enjoy Your India Travel ................ This book helps you overcome the Indian cultural barriers and enjoy your India Travel. This book acts as a companion guide for India Travel. You get the best experience of Indian culture, through the character of John. This story of John makes you feel, relate, understand, and experience the way Indians live. If you are traveling to India, this book will help you a lot in getting along with Indians and enjoying India. It takes you through the real-life situations of ...

Many dream of dropping everything and just traveling around the world. It's a common dream, but few imagine embarking on that journey by bicycle. Exposed to the elements, legs burning, all your possessions strapped to you and your bicycle - it doesn't paint a relaxing picture, but this is just what Pierre-Yves Tremblay did.

You are guaranteed to have happiness and love by listening to this book! Chinese woman will ignite that spark in you, my friend. Also she will please you with the best cooking, best pleasure, and care. I'm truly blessed with my relationship with my girl. She's from China. At first I was skeptical, but now it seems we'll go all the way....

For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know that we and they are dying.

The 1925-1928 Roerich Expedition, led by artist, mystic, spy, arch-intriguer, and hard-core Aghartian-Shambhalist Nicholas Roerich, was believed by some to be a khora, or circumnavigation, of the legendary kingdom of Shambhala. The Expedition spent seven months in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Everywhere they turned the Roerichs stumbled upon signs of Shambhala . . . Includes three maps and fifty-three photos (color on devices that support color).

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat Like a Local - Vietnam by Minh Chi Nguyen. Minh Chi Nguyen offers the inside scoop of food in Vietnam. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate.

It was 1799, and French privateers lurked in the Atlantic and the Bay of Bengal. Yet Eleanor Reid, newly married and just twenty-one years old, made up her mind to sail with her husband, Captain Hugh Reid, to the Pacific, the Spice Islands and India. Danger threatened not just from the barely charted seas they would be sailing, but from the lowest deck of Captain Reid’s East Indiaman Friendship, too—from the cages of Irish rebels he was carrying to the penal colony of New South Wales. Yet, confident in her love and her husband’s seamanship, Eleanor insisted on going along. Joan Druett...

«Un romanzo dovrei venire a scrivere e nient’altro. Non resta che sublimare tutta questa roba in qualcosa che non sia l’articoletto. Non troverò il tempo?» annotava Terzani. E quasi come una favola, sanguinaria eppure ricca di poesia e fragranze tropicali, Fantasmi inizia tra pipistrelli, palazzi reali ed elefanti semisacri.

Cambodia is the new Thailand! Cambodia is the hottest new country in Southeast Asia! Beautiful beaches, coastlines, magnificent temples, a wonderfully cheap cost of comfortable living, friendly people and beautiful women looking for a better life; all await you! With Thailand caught up in an endless cycle of military coups, rising prices, and worst of all, rising unfriendliness towards low budget tourism, more and more travelers are heading first to Cambodia! Written especially for those interested in Cambodia's beautiful,friendly,and available women; this is also a comprehensive, very ...

Follow Ice's journey from Buriram to Pattaya and marvel at how she manages to develop into a strong woman despite the miscreants that try in vain to block her path. In this prequel to 'Pattaya 2020' we can learn about the everyday struggles faced by young men and women as they enter Thailand's 'Industry' of nightlife including bars, massage parlours and hostess clubs. Based on facts and never dull, Phil Hall has developed a character that represents the masses who have no choice but to work in this sector in order to support their families all over Thailand.

Una guía completa de Tailandia. ¿Te gustaría viajar pero crees que necesitas mucho dinero? ¿Te gustaría conocer el mundo pero no sabes cómo armar un presupuesto o cómo hacerlo de manera económica? ¡Entonces este libro es para ti! En este libro te enseñaremos a viajar de manera económica, daremos recomend aciones de restaurantes imperdibles, daremos diferentes consejos para disfrutarl o como local. Fun Facts y te ayudaremos a organizar ese viaje que tanto anhelas. ¿Qué es lo que estás esperando? Si quieres conocer Tailandia usa este libro como referencia para recorrer.

Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions: What does it mean to belong, and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country?

Beijing is one of the largest cities in the world, and it is impossible to see everything in 72 hours. Where do you go first? What do you want to see and do the most? This audiobook is designed to help you with your dilemma. It first takes you through the process of understanding and applying for the invaluable 72-hour visa-free transit policy and the rules surrounding it.

Okay, let me just get this out of the way: if you’ve picked up this book, it’s because you’re either seriously considering stripping down and living your best life in Vietnam, or you’re secretly hoping to find a funny guide to justify your weirdly specific nudist fantasies. Either way, I’m here for it. So, I’m Kristin, and yes, I’m writing a whole book about being naked in Vietnam. No, it’s not a typo. Yes, you read that right. Completely naked. And no, I don’t expect you to be sitting here thinking this is a totally normal, everyday thing—especially if you're a first-...