Having lived in Bangkok on and off for the past 7 years, I’ve thought quite a bit about the current constitutional crisis within Thailand. I’m not really qualified to offer …
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Product Director, Melissa, gives her top 5 romantic hotels she has been to across South East Asia.
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After trekking through local villages, whizzing along backwaters, exploring jungles and zipping around city centres on Vespas, there is nothing more needed than a few days spent relaxing on a …
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[cycloneslider id=”test-cyclone”] Burma is well known for many things – the friendliness of the locals, the magnificent sight of thousands of temples at Bagan and rural life by Lake Inle …
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As travellers, we’re far from being newcomers to either Sri Lanka or Experience Travel. We were a nine-strong group of sixty-something old-handers, including ETG’s first ever and tsunami-stranded clients. So …
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Congratulations to Sri Lanka for their tremendous victory in the 20/20 World Cup! Beating India in the final must have felt so sweet for this cricket crazy country, forever living …
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Monday March 31st 2014 is Silence (Nyepi) Day, a really important date in the Balinese Hindu Calendar. Nyepi is a fascinating and unusual religious event which takes place every year in …
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Jaffna Music Festival – 2013 The Jaffna Music Festival (JMF) is one that is held every other year, alternating between Jaffna and Galle. This makes perfect sense as this northern …
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In our ‘Travel Tales’ series, our Travel Consultants share their travel stories. Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. This is how each hotel, experience and …
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In our ‘Travel Tales’ series, our Travel Consultants share their travel stories. Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. This is how each hotel, experience and …
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Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. Here David Gookey, one of our Travel Consultants shares his foodie experiences in Thailand…
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Great release today from the British Library of a series of pictures of Burma from 1897 released to their Flickr account. Burma has such a strong hold on the imagination …
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In our ‘Travel Tales’ series, our Travel Consultants share their travel stories. Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. This is how each hotel, experience and …
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We were over the moon to discover on Friday that we were runners up in the Telegraph Travel Awards 2013 in the ‘Favourite Specialist Tour Operator‘ category. There are so …
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Vietnam has some of the most exciting and varied cuisine in Southeast Asia, with stand-out specialities such as shrimp spring rolls, sticky rice and pork belly rolls and the infamous …
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Thailand is well known for its dramatic monsoon rains, and like it or not, whatever time of year you visit the Land of Smiles, there is a chance you will …
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Inaugural Vietnam Supper Club November 2013 We held our inaugural Vietnam Supper Club on Friday 15th November at the Deli Boutique just down the road from our headquarters. We had …
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Latest Travel News and Views from AsiaSustainable TravelThailand
Asian Oasis Announce: No More Elephant Riding on their Tours
by Sam ClarkOur close partners in Thailand, Asian Oasis have announced today that they will no longer include elephant riding in any of their programmes. As regular readers of our blog and …
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Best of British rail, and still going strong. Both Trincomalee and Batticaloa are firmly plugged in to the creaking but characterful Sri Lankan railway network. Both offer overnight sleeper services …
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Experience Travel Group and Pride Life Magazine
by Sam ClarkWe were pleased to score a mention in a piece by Cate Langmuir which appeared in Pride Life Magazine. The article isn’t yet online, so we’ve uploaded the pages which …
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There is a lot of buzz around at the moment about Passekudah on Sri Lanka’s East Coast – and it is certainly changing at a pace. While it’s a great place …
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Bromo and Ijen are some of the biggest volcanoes in Indonesia. This blog post follows Matt’s journey to both of them to inform you on what to expect upon visiting …
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A temporary checkpoint on the land border between Thailand and Burma is to be converted into a permanent border crossing this week. The crossing connects Sing Khon in Thailand (accessible …
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The judges, Marta Moreiras, Jordi Ruiz Cirera (Winner of The National Portrait Gallery Photography Portrait Award 2012) have spoken… and we have a winner! Drumroll….. One Mr Paul McCarthy for this effort: The …
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Marta Moreiras and Jordi Ruiz Cirera (Winner of The National Portrait Gallery Photography Portrait Award 2012) are two superb young travel photographers who kindly agreed to work with Experience Travel Group in judging our photography …
We Launch Appeal to Build A New School in Burma at St John’s Hill Fab Feast!
We’re really delighted to announce that we launching an appeal to raise funds to build a new primary school for 60 kids at Moe Nyo in Burma. The appeal, aiming …
Family Travel Tips: Top 5 things to consider when planning your family holiday in Asia
Planning the trip of a lifetime can be hard. Planning the trip of a lifetime for you AND your family? Phew! I need to sit down already. That’s what we …
When one of the ‘mystery guests’ (people sat next to me) complained on my recent flight to Bangkok that he did not have a window seat, his wife simply told …
One of our all time favourite dishes is Fish Amok from Cambodia. Our great friends at Song Saa, the super luxurious Cambodian beach resort have been kind enough to share …
Petition to Stop Tour Operators Sending Volunteers to Orphanages
I’d strongly encourage you to support this campaign by Tourism Concern, to stop tour operators and commercial volunteering organisations from sending volunteers to work in orphanages abroad. Tourism Concern launched a petition …
Thanks to Stuart at Marmalade Productions for putting together this superb video of Sri Lanka using footage he took in his year long visit to Sri Lanka combined with footage from …
Travel Tales: Exploring the Knuckles Wilderness at Abode in Sri Lanka
In our ‘Travel Tales’ series, our Travel Consultants share their travel stories. Our Travel Consultants regularly travel to the destinations they specialise in. This is how each hotel, experience and …