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The Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, Bihar, prayer flags and marigold garlands against the spire

What the First Morning Actually Looks Like

A Note from Mary What the First Morning Actually Looks Like Because “a deliberate first morning” is a lovely phrase and lovely phrases are cheap. By Mary Collins,...
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Standing at the Start of Something

A Note from Mary Standing at the Start of Something On thresholds, beginner’s mind, and the beginnings you’re allowed to choose. By Mary Collins, CEO of Far Horizons...
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The Trip You Keep Meaning to Take

A Note from Mary The Trip You Keep Meaning to Take On the trips we defer, and the year we have left. By Mary Collins, CEO of Far...
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Where Ideas Begin: Eastern India and the Original Buddhist Road

Notes from the Field Where Ideas Begin Most travelers follow Buddhism downstream. The source is upstream, and it changes everything you think you know. By Mary Collins, CEO...
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The Question That Makes Japan Legible

Japan is beautiful in a way that is easy to feel and difficult to explain. The temple gardens. The silence of the tea house. The raked gravel. The...
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Udaipur India

Five Traditions, One Theme: A Guide to North India’s Sacred Landscape

North India is not a collection of sacred sites. It’s a laboratory. A three-thousand-year experiment in what happens when great civilizations have to build their answers to the...
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Egyptian temple ceiling

What the Ancient Egyptians Saw

At the moment of total solar eclipse, the world does something no photograph has ever fully captured. The temperature drops — several degrees, in minutes. The horizon in...
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Boutique travel in Egypt: Three travelers enjoy an uncrowded Nile River experience aboard a traditional dahabiya sailboat

The Wrong Way to Choose a Trip (And What to Do Instead)

Most people choose a trip the way they choose a restaurant — by scanning the options and picking the one that looks best in photos. That’s not a...
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What You Can’t Get from a Lecture

There's a version of travel where you leave knowing you were there. And a version where you leave knowing you understood. On what separates intellectual travel from educational...
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