Publication: Travel + Leisure Feature: A-List Superagents Issue: September 2002 Authors: Shane Mitchell and Stephen Whitlock This excerpt originally appeared in Travel + Leisure and is reproduced here as part of Imperial Tours’ media and publication archive. Meet the SUPERAGENTS, 70 travel consultants who’ll make your next vacation the trip of a lifetime. Travel & […]
Which Luxury Tour? 5 Critical Factors For Choosing A Luxury Tour by Guy Rubin You’ve paid top dollar for your “luxury tour” but find yourself continually eating in shabby restaurants, puzzled that tourist sites shut early each afternoon while souvenir stores seem permanently open. You are angered not only by your guide’s increasingly obvious dishonesty […]
A review of Genghis Khan by James Chambers Reviewed by Guy Rubin “Seven hundred years ago a man almost conquered the earth. He made himself master of half the known world, and inspired mankind with a fear that lasted for generations. In the course of his life he was given many names — Mighty Manslayer, […]
Finding commonality at Beijing’s Western Qing Tombs By Guy Rubin What is it that you, me and the last Qing dynasty emperor, Puyi, could all have in common? Absolute power at the age of two? Two wives for our sixteenth birthday? A flawed comeback in our thirties? Or maybe it’s that now we can all […]
Two hours from Beijing, Baiyangdian in summer metamorphoses from a drab swamp into a colorful checkerboard of lotus patches and fish nurseries The sun may have taken the weather forecasters by surprise, but not the lotus flowers. Attuned to the barest climatic fluctuation, they are already on the threshold of their summer bloom. A gathering […]
