One of the first events in the annual Formula 1 Grand Prix motor racing season is the Malaysian Grand Prix at the impressive Sepang track. The first World Championship Grand Prix held at this new ultra-modern circuit, known for its sweeping corners and wide straights, was in 1999, and since then the event has become known as one of the most thrilling on the F1 Calendar. View Package details

On the 22nd July 2009, the longest total solar eclipse of the century (around six and a half minutes) will begin over China at 10.34am local time, and will take more than half an hour to traverse the entire country. The eclipse will cross India, and then cross China's western border and travel east, passing over some of the best known places in the country, such as Chengdu, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Shanghai.  View our tour to China [ link ]

SINGAPORE AIRLINES has been voted Airline of the Year 2008 in the latest World Airline Awards announced by Skytrax Research. This is the third time in 10 years the airline has won the title. Singapore Airlines was also voted Best Airline to Asia and Best Business Class Airline.

In a sign the country's ambitions to go faster, higher and bigger have not been dimmed by the end of the Olympics, the Ministry of Railways says it is raising the speed it intends the new line connecting the cities to reach when it opens in 2012.

Tempt your taste buds, tantalize your senses and prepare yourselves for a treat! Vietnam is a food connoisseur’s paradise. Books have been devoted to Vietnamese cuisine, the lives of Vietnamese people are centered on food, and rightly so, the food in Vietnam is delicious and nutritious. Each area boasts its own delicacy and the ingredients are bought in the markets in the early hours, whilst you are sleeping. Whether you like spring rolls, rice or noodle based dishes, enjoy eating pork, beef or frog, Vietnam has it. And what a better way to experience this than a dedicated cuisine tour throughout the country with cooking classes so you can introduce this cuisine to your friends at home. Come on a journey with us to experience food that you would never have done before, try it, you'll never regret it. View full holiday programme [ follow this link ]

 

GIANT pandas have strong personalities and expressive behaviours. The first time you see pandas mucking around it's surreal, as if someone has dressed a bunch of children in black-and-white teddy bear costumes and set them in slow motion. Wilfully and patiently, they dismember stalks of bamboo, push their friends down hills and act up for the cameras.