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Private Jet, TCS Expeditions
September 17 - October 7, 2011 |
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| ITINERARY |
· London, England
· Karasjok, Norway
· Yerevan, Armenia
· Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
· Lijiang, Yunan, China
· Papua, New Guinea
· Yogyakarta, Indonesia
· Paro, Bhutan
· Petra, Jordan
· Cappadocia, Turkey
· London, England
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| LECTURES |
· Sami People & Norway/Destination
· Briefing - (Total 20 min)
· Mongolia: New nation on Horseback
· Papua New Guinea:
· An Anthropologist's Dream
· The Journey Of Man: The Story of
· Human Dispersal Over the Earth
· Petra & the Ancient World
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We started out in London, boarded out prívate first class fitted
Icelandair jet, and took off for the most exciting series of destinations, I have ever experienced. It was extremely interesting to "drop in" on Sami reindeer herders and compare their lifestyle to the nomadic herders of the Mongolian steppe or the former herders of southern China and Turkey. The contrasts between settled urban life and the life of the nomad are quite striking. Nomads have few possessions and build no great architectural temples or palaces. Their life is simple and close to the land. Yet, the Mongols, because they once conquered most of Europe and Asia, have a rich musical and artistic tradition which they imported from China Persia. In contrast, we also saw a number of places where early people had carved out fantastic temples and Christian churches out of living
rock. In Armenia, the first nation to embrace Christianity, some of the oldest mountain monasteries are still maintained to this day. Petra, a wondrous ancient
city built by the Nabataeans probably around 300 BC or earlier, is carved out of sandstone and was once fed by a sophisticated system of cisterns and wells which captured the scarce desert moisture and channeled it into the city and into agricultural field. In Cappadocia, we walked through an 8 story underground city, probably dating back to the Hittites but later used by Medieval Christians. On
this voyage there was also one surprise and one breathtaking experience. Bhutan is a little gem I had never expected, a true Shangri La. But the breathtaking experience that capped off this extraordinary voyage, was watching the sunrise over the strange coned volcanic landscape of Cappadocia from a hot air balloon on our last day. What a way to end a rich and thought provoking experience! |
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