#Adventure travel in South Asia

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This scene is from Jahaz banda Lake Dir Upper

This scene is from Jahaz banda Lake . Where tourists are traveling to the lake by boat.If you want to discover the beautiful landscapes of Pakistan and especially the northern regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with us, then stay connected with our social media channelPhotography by kumrat Tourism Pvt Limited team

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Sunrise at Angkor Wat, April 2017

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Seoul, South Korea

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My Thai Adventures

If you have never been to Thailand, you must go! I truly can not say enough about the people, culture, food, cost of living and it’s sheer truly breath taking beauty!

I love this place so much, I will be moving there in 1.5 years to leave life in the USA behind and go to a place where I truly feel free!

Follow along for my random adventures!

“We travel not to escape life, but to make sure life does not escape us”

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The Ultimate Travel Guide 2024: Top 5 Must-See Destinations in the World

Whether you're planning an epic adventure or a peaceful getaway, 2024 is all about seeing the world’s most stunning destinations. From natural wonders to historic cities, here are five must-see places that deserve a spot on every traveler's bucket list. With insider tips and top keywords for each location, you’ll be ready to plan your perfect trip!

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1. Santorini, Greece

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This Greek island is iconic for its white-washed buildings, crystal-blue waters, and breathtaking sunsets. Start your day exploring the charming village of Oia, where narrow, cobbled streets lead to stunning cliff-side views. Relax on the black sand beaches, taste traditional Greek wines in a local vineyard, and end your day at a rooftop restaurant to catch the famous sunset over the Aegean Sea.

Top Tip: For a more intimate experience, visit in the early morning or during the shoulder season (April-May or September-October).

Don't Miss: The ancient ruins of Akrotiri, an incredibly preserved city dating back to the Bronze Age.

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2. Kyoto, Japan

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Known for its traditional temples, tea ceremonies, and spring cherry blossoms, Kyoto offers an immersive experience in Japanese culture. Visit Kinkaku-ji (the Golden Pavilion) and Fushimi Inari Shrine with its thousands of red torii gates. Whether you're exploring bamboo forests or savoring matcha tea, Kyoto’s balance of nature and tradition is a soul-soothing experience.

Top Tip: Plan to visit during cherry blossom season (March to April) for unforgettable views.

Don't Miss: A stroll through the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove and a visit to Nishiki Market for delicious street food.

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3. Banff National Park, Canada

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For those looking to escape into nature, Banff offers unmatched beauty in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Enjoy pristine lakes, towering mountains, and endless trails. Lake Louise is a must-see with its turquoise waters surrounded by snow-capped peaks. Adventure seekers can hike, canoe, or even try skiing in the winter months.

Top Tip: Visit in the fall (September) to catch the vibrant autumn colors and avoid the summer crowds.

Don't Miss: Moraine Lake at sunrise—one of the most photogenic spots in all of Canada.

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4. Marrakech, Morocco

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Dive into a world of color, aroma, and vibrant culture in Marrakech. Wander through the Medina’s bustling souks, marvel at the architecture of the Bahia Palace, and take a peaceful stroll in the Majorelle Garden. At night, the main square, Jemaa el-Fnaa, comes alive with storytellers, musicians, and endless food stalls serving local Moroccan cuisine.

Top Tip: Stay in a traditional riad for an authentic Moroccan experience.

Don't Miss: A guided tour through the Atlas Mountains for incredible views and insights into Berber culture.

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5. Patagonia, Argentina & Chile

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A paradise for outdoor enthusiasts, Patagonia is known for its rugged landscapes, glaciers, and unparalleled hiking routes. Explore Torres del Paine National Park in Chile or Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina. You’ll encounter everything from azure lakes to jagged mountains. For a truly unforgettable experience, consider a guided trek to the stunning Perito Moreno Glacier.

Top Tip: The best time to visit is during the Southern Hemisphere’s summer (December to February).

Don't Miss: A boat tour to see the Grey Glacier up close in Torres del Paine.

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Tropical Islands of Indian Ocean in South Asia Visit & Explore Beach Beauty of Maldives ! Login: https://www.southasiavoyage.com

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Looking for adventures in Indonesia, then check out our guest post from Clara Chau on hiking Mt Ljen Volcano for a unique experience.

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Above Seoul, Namsan Tower

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“Headhunters Trail, Gunung Mulu National Park / Malaysia .”

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“Headhunters Trail, Gunung Mulu National Park / Malaysia .”

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GOTHAM FILES: SEASON 5

JASON TODD IS ALIVE!!!

Ra’s Al Ghul has brought him back to life and intends to give him back to Bruce as a reconciliation gift. The only thing is, the Lazarus Pit can have… interesting effects on people, especially when bringing them back to life. In Jason’s case, he comes back with a serious case of brain fog, with some slightly psychotic tendencies. Ra’s can’t return Jason like this, so he spends the next few months rehabilitating the boy and training him with the League. He’ll be such a fine warrior, not only will Bruce be getting his protégé back, but he’ll be in better shape than when he died. Little by little, though, Jason is beginning to come back to his senses, his memories return, and he begins to question where he is and what he’s doing. This isn’t right… where’s Bruce? Where’s Alfred? Why isn’t he in Gotham anymore? In a panic, somewhat brought on by the side effects of the Pit, Jason escapes the League of Shadows and winds up totally alone, totally lost in West Asia, trying to get back home. The League of Shadows goes after him, and he has to outrun them any way he can, and after a long, harrowing adventure where he jumps all around Asia, South-East Asia, and Australia, he is finally on the fast track to getting back to the States and Gotham. He’s thrilled to be back home, but the first thing he sees when he looks at the news… is Batman… and a new Robin… saving the city. He heads to the Manor to see for himself and finds Tim Drake sleeping in one of the guest bedrooms. There’s still some Lazarus Madness in his head, so he doesn’t take this so well at first. It gets worse when he realises that Joker is still alive. Batman never avenged him. Cue the events of “Under the Red Hood” where Jason takes down a gang of thugs, takes the identity of their leader, “The Red Hood,” and starts tearing up Gotham, looking for Joker, while simultaneously poking Bruce at every available opportunity. And then, when the truth is finally revealed about who Red Hood is, Ra’s shows up and tries to be all, “Look! I brought Jason back for you! Surprise? Heheh… now come marry my daughter.” And Bruce is like…. “No.” Ra’s warns him, though, that if he doesn’t join him now, he’s going to be in for a few surprises soon. He still refuses. Ra’s slinks off back to the Shadows.

Anyway, the point is, Bruce is confronted by Jason regarding Joker. Jay doesn’t hold a grudge against Bruce for not being able to save him—it was Jason’s own fault that he wound up that situation in the first place—but what he is ticked about is the fact that Joker’s still alive, and, well, to a lesser extent that he’s been kinda replaced, but it’s mostly the Joker thing. But since Jason isn’t Robin anymore, he’s not playing by Batman’s rules. He’s going to do what Batman couldn’t, and be the hero Gotham really needs. He’s going to end the Joker once and for all. Bruce tries to stop him. Killing isn’t the answer. It’s a quick fix, but it’s no guarantee that another Joker won’t pop up tomorrow, and worse… Bruce isn’t prepared to lose what’s left of his humanity. He’s traveling a dark enough path as it is. He refuses to let himself fall further and become the very thing he hates. He doesn’t want that for Jason either. In the end though, due to Bruce and Jason fighting, Joker gets away (he does wind up getting hurt bad enough that he loses sight in one eye, though), and Bruce begs Jason to come home. He’s just so immensely relieved to see him alive! But Jason… he’s not the same kid he was when he went under. He’s not Bruce’s Robin anymore and he still plans on killing Joker. It’s time they parted ways. For good.

So, yeah, the falling out part is real sad… and everyone’s brooding over what happened, and Dick even tries to find and talk to Jason, but that doesn’t help. It looks like Jay’s not ever going to be part of the BatFam again… until this happens:

Jason is rightfully ticked at Bruce, but they can shelve that long conversation for a later date. Right now they’ve gotta MOVE if they want to get Tim home alive. Everyone gets called in, Nightwing, Batgirl, Spoiler, even Starfire shows up, as she and Dick have been dating for a while now. Joker’s come up with a real twisted scheme this time, one that really throws the crew for a loop as they try to figure it all out, and Joker nearly has enough time to psychologically torture Tim (giving the Batman: Beyond film flashbacks!) but before Tim can be all twisted up into mini-Joker, his team arrives and they save him just in the nick of time!

Jason is ultimately the one to grab him, and in a way he confronts his own trauma by sparing Tim from a similar fate. This is how they bond and become one of the closer pairs in the BatFam. Jason really kicked into “Protective Older Brother Mode.”

After that scare, Batman keeps Jason from killing Joker and he’s instead locked up tight in Arkham Asylum. Again. Hopefully this time he won’t break out… hopefully. Now Jason can really chew Bruce out, but the main thing this adventure did was force them all to work together again. And maybe Jason won’t really be too far away from now on. He’s still gonna have his own place and do his own thing, but… he still does care about Bruce… and he does think of Dick and Tim as brothers… and Alfred is the best. Jason will be around.

The season goes on for a bit longer, tackling a few other stories, etc, etc, and then it ends with Dick proposing to Starfire… and Ra’s kidnapping Bruce again, but this time, it’s not to force him to marry Talia… mostly. This time, he’s got something to tell Bruce. There’s someone he needs to meet. His son, Damian Wayne. Way back in season 1, Talia had stolen some… “DNA” from Bruce while he was captured, and they had used it, in conjunction with her own… “DNA” to create Damian. She and Ra’s had been raising him for the past ten years, training him to be the perfect weapon, the perfect leader, and the perfect heir to the throne of the League of Shadows. Now it was time for the next stage in his studies. Talia had taught him just about everything she knew. Now it was Bruce’s turn. Besides, the boy had wanted to meet his father. Ra’s declares that Damian will go live with Bruce for five years, and then return home.

…So, long story short, Bruce winds up back in Gotham on the heels of Dick’s engagement with the ten-year-old son he never knew he had.

These next few years are gonna be fun.

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Crowds for the sunrise at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. April 2017

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About the entanglement of "science" and Empire. About geographic imaginaries. About how Empire appeals to and encourages children to participate in these scripts.

Was checking out this recent thing, from scavengedluxury's beloved series of posts looking at the archive of the Budapest Municipal Photography Company.

The caption reads: "Toys and board games, 1940."

And I think the text on the game-box in the back says something like "the whole world is yours", maybe?

(The use of appeals to science/progress in imperial narratives probably already well-known to many, especially for those familiar with Victorian era, Edwardian era, Gilded Age, early twentieth century, etc., in US and Europe.)

And was struck, because I had also recently gone looking through nemfrog's posts about the often-strange imagery of children's material in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US/Europe. And was disturbed/intrigued by this thing:

Caption here reads: "Game Board. Walter Mittelholzer's flight over Africa. [...] 1931. Commemorative game board map of Africa for a promotional game published for the N*stle Company, for tracking the trip of Walter Mittelholzer across Africa, the first pilot to fly a north-south route."

Hmm.

"Africa is for your consumption and pleasure! A special game celebrating German achievement, brought to you by the N*stle Company!"

1930s-era German national aspirations in Africa. A company which, in the preceding decade, had shifted focus to expand its cacao production (which would be dependent on tropical plantations). Adventure, excitement, knowledge, science, engineering prowess, etc. For kids!

Another, from a couple decades earlier, this time British.

Caption reads: "The "World's globe circler." A game board based on Nellie Bly's travels. 1890." At center, a trumpet, and a proclamation: "ALL RECORDS BROKEN".

Same year that the United States "closed the frontier" and conquered "the Wild West" (the massacre at Wounded Knee happened in December 1890). A couple years later, the US annexed Hawai'i; by decade's end, the US military was in both Cuba and the Philippines. The Scramble for Africa was taking place. At the time, Britain especially already had a culture of "travel writing" or "travel fiction" or whatever we want to call it, wherein domestic residents of the metropole back home could read about travel, tourism, expeditions, adventures, etc. on the peripheries of the Empire. Concurrent with the advent of popular novels, magazines, mass-market print media, etc. Intrepid explorers rescuing Indigenous peoples from their own backwardness. Many tales of exotic allure set in South Asia. Heroic white hunters taking down scary tigers. Elegant Englishwomen sipping tea in the shade of an umbrella, giggling at the elephants, the local customs, the strange sights. Orientalism, tropicality, othering.

I'd lately been looking at a lot of work on race/racism and imperative-of-empire in British scientific and pop-sci literature, especially involving South and Southeast Asia. (From scholars like Varun Sharma, Rohan Deb Roy, Ezra Rashkow, Jonathan Saha, Pratik Chakrabarti.) But I'd also lately been looking at Mashid Mayar's work, which I think closely suits this kinda thing with the board games. Some of her publications:

"From Tools to Toys: American Dissected Maps and Geographic Knowledge at the Turn of the Twentieth Century". In: Knowledge Landscapes North America, edited by Kloeckner et al., 2016.

"What on Earth! Slated Globes, School Geography and Imperial Pedagogy". European Journal of American Studies 16, number 3, Summer 2020.

Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire, 2022.

Discussing her book, Mayar was interviewed by LA Review of Books in 2022. She says:

[Quote.] Growing up at the turn of the 20th century, for many American children, also meant learning to view the world through the lens of "home geography." [...] [T]hey inevitably responded to the transnational whims of an empire that had stretched its dominion across the globe [recent forays into Panama, Cuba, Hawai'i, the Philippines] [...]. [W]hite, well-to-do, literate American children [...] learned how to identify and imagine “homes” on the map of the world. [...] [T]he cognitive maps children developed, to which we have access through the scant archival records they left behind (i.e., geographical puzzles they designed and printed in juvenile periodicals) [...] mixed nativism and the logic of colonization with playful, appropriative scalar confusion, and an intimate, often unquestioned sense of belonging to the global expanse of an empire [...]. Dissected maps - that is, maps mounted on cardboard or wood and then cut into smaller pieces that children were to put back together - are a generative example of the ways imperial pedagogy [...] found its place outside formal education, in children's lives outside the classroom. [...] [W]ell before having been adopted as playthings in the United States, dissected maps had been designed to entertain and teach the children of King George III about the global spatial affairs of the British Empire. […] [J]uvenile periodicals of the time printed child-made geographical puzzles [...]. [I]t was their assumption that "(un)charted," non-American spaces (both inside and outside the national borders) sought legibility as potential homes, [...] and that, if they did not do so, they were bound to recede into ruin/"savagery," meaning that it would become the colonizers' responsibility/burden to "restore" them [...]. [E]mpires learn from and owe to childhood in their attempts at survival and growth over generations [...]. [These] "multigenerational power constellations" [...] survived, by making accessible pedagogical scripts that children of the white and wealthy could learn from and appropriate as times changed [...]. [End quote.] Source: Words of Mashid Mayar, as transcribed in an interviewed conducted and published by M. Buna. "Children's Maps of the American Empire: A Conversation with Mashid Mayar". LA Review of Books. 11 July 2022.

Some other stuff I was recently looking at, specifically about European (especially German) geographic imaginaries of globe-as-playground:

The Play World: Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood (Patricia Anne Simpson, 2020) /// "19th-Century Board Game Offers a Tour of the German Colonies" (Sarah Zabrodski, 2016) /// Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany (David Ciarlo, 2011) /// Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 (Erik Grimmer-Solem, 2019) /// “Ruling Africa: Science as Sovereignty in the German Colonial Empire and Its Aftermath” (Andrew Zimmerman. In: German Colonialism in a Global Age, 2014) /// "Exotic Education: Writing Empire for German Boys and Girls, 1884-1914". (Jeffrey Bowersox. In: German Colonialism and National Identity, 2017) /// Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914 (Jeff Bowersox, 2013) /// "[Translation:] (Educating Modernism: A Trade-Specific Portrait of the German Toy Industry in the Developing Mass-Market Society)" (Heike Hoffmann, PhD dissertation, Tubingen, 2000) /// Home and Harem: Nature, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel (Inderpal Grewal, 1996) /// "'Le rix d'Indochine' at the French Table: Representation of Food, Race and the Vietnamese in a Colonial-Era Board Game" (Elizabeth Collins, 2021) /// "The Beast in a Box: Playing with Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Romita Ray, 2006) /// Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games (Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson, 2023)

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You Only Have 1 Week Left To Live On This Earth!

If you only had 7 days left of your existence, where would you go, who is going to be with you, and what would you do once you were there!

Me personally, I am going to Thailand with my immediate family and we are going to be on a floating resort only accessible by boat in Chaweng Lan Lake in Khao Sok National Park!

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Hello darlings! I’ve returned from the ashes once more. First of all, sorry for leaving you for so long, and thank you for all the messages during all this time. “What happened?” You may ask. Well, last year I set off on an adventure. I spent 9 months traveling and working around East and South Asia. It was super fun, chaotic, and I barely had any free time. I suppose it’s cliché to say that going to Asia changes your life, but it happened to me. Those were some magical months. I learned a lot, and became even more deranged than before, if that was even possible.

And who would I be if I didn’t share the sin—I mean, love with you all?

This drawing (plus the video and fanfiction that comes with it) is just the beginning. I can’t wait to show you what I have prepared hehehe

What have you darlings been up to? I saw some comments about making Jujutsu Kaisen drawings, and I guess it really happened haha! It has been a big obsession of mine for a few months now, along with Genshin, Honkai Star Rail, and Twisted Wonderland. (I’ve been thinking about trying Love and Deepspace too). But I don’t discriminate. I’ll bring any hot fictional guy to your feet babes. Just you wait.

It’s good to be back!

P.s.: you can find the story on ao3 and wattpad. I’ll post the video here and on my other social media, so you can decide which platform you like best.

Love,

khywae

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Eastern spotted quoll, South Australia