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The Oriental Caravan's small group tours of Japan
and Taiwan...
Japan - The Land of the Rising Sun
This
classic introductory tour of Japan is
highly popular and a holiday perfect for those who
want to visit Japan’s most famous sights
in Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Tokyo
whilst also getting
off-the-beaten-track
to explore
the many wonders of Kyushu. Aside from
the gardens, our favourite parts are the
magical nights we spend exploring the
island of Miyajima and joining in for
some old time Japanese rock ‘n?roll in
the spa town of Beppu!
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tours details...
Japan
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North
This
fascinating tour around Japan’s
mysterious north visits the route taken
by the haiku poet Matsuo Basho
and is named after his famous Japan tour
of 1689. We stay in a variety of
characterful local accommodation
including Japanese ryokan and
monastic, mountaintop shukubo. We
witness horseback samurai archery at
Nikko’s Toshogu festival and learn the
secrets of the self-mummified monks of
Tsuruoka. We cruise among
Matsushima’s pine-clad islets and at
Osore San we tour surely one of the
eeriest travel destinations of any
holiday in
Japan - if not the world!
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Japan - In the Footsteps of Pilgrims
This charming tour is
loosely themed on the life of Japan’s
greatest monk, the remarkable Kobo
Daishi and is about as
off-the-beaten-track as you can get
within Japan. We concentrate on
exploring the sleepy island of Shikoku,
one of the few places in the world that
mass tourism has yet to find. We visit
the mountain-top monasteries of Koya,
bathe in the ancient hot springs of Dogo
and explore the isolated valleys of Iya,
Japan’s ‘Little Tibet? Our old Japan
hands love this holiday. Join us to find
out why!
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Japan -
in Search of the Last Samurai
This
unusual tour is loosely based on the
life of Japan's most famous samurai
warrior Saigo Takamori and visits many
of the places associated with his heroic
but doomed resistance to imperial rule.
We also explore Matsue and the little
visited but scenically astounding San-in
Coast with its onsen and castle towns
before heading to Kyushu and the
southernmost town of Kagoshima where we
visit Cherry Blossom Island and the
kamikaze museum in Chiran.
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Japan
- a Caravan through the Land of the Ainu
Hokkaido is a land of haunting, natural
beauty where vast, virgin forests are
cut through by raging icy torrents and
huge, brown bears roam in the shadow of
towering snow-capped volcanoes - a
magical, and in many ways still
unexplored, wilderness. With this
new, exciting tour of Japan it becomes the last
of the archipelago’s four main islands
to be touched by the ever turning wheels
of The Oriental Caravan.
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The Oriental Caravan's small group tour of
Taiwan...
Taiwan -a Caravan to the Beautiful Isle
Taiwan the
beautiful!
The
Oriental Caravan's tour around Taiwan
seeks out and explores the rich
diversity of what is perhaps Asia's best
kept travel secret. This unique
itinerary reveals Taiwan at a relaxed pace
with, wherever possible, gentle walks
providing the medium for exploration. A
tour of Taiwan is not a tour of Taiwan
unless its a holiday aboard The Oriental Caravan!
taiwan tours details...
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