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...TIME EXPLORER Asia: The new Grand Tour Australia: Ecotourism luxe Bhutan: Asia's best-kept secret...
...TIME EXPLORER Asia: The new Grand Tour Australia: Ecotourism luxe Bhutan: Asia's best-kept secret...
...TIME EXPLORER Asia: The new Grand Tour Australia: Ecotourism luxe Bhutan: Asia's best-kept secret...
...Toronto's festival, now in its 28th year, is North America's most congenial and capacious showcase for Asian films from Iran to Bhutan to Japan. That was particularly gracious this year considering that Asia's most notable contribution to Toronto in 2003 was a bite of the SARS epidemic. Forty-four locals died in the only major outbreak of the disease beyond the Far East. For months pessimists envisioned a festival depleted of its usual horde of stars, not to mention filmgoers decked out in surgical masks. It didn't happen. The top hotels were overbooked by Nicole Kidman...
...catering is never dull, and neither is the trekking. And while Sikkim is big on adventure, it's a thumbnail of a place, hemmed in by Nepal, China, Bhutan and India. In 1975, this Hobbit-sized realm-a cute 110 km by 60 km-was annexed by India. But borders here have always been vague, making the Sikkimese a loose mix of Himalayan peoples and of forest-dwelling Lepcha, the area's earliest inhabitants. Unlike other parts of the Himalayas, few in Sikkim make their homes in the inhospitable mountains. Tending yaks and planting rice on barren slopes...