Goway All About Culture

For Goway Travel’s Pacific departments, 2017 is shaping up to be a year of culture.

The operator is urging its globetrotting customers to go beyond the usual tourist attractions and discover the more unique cultural experiences and local connections on trips through Asia, the South Pacific and the lands Downunder.

India’s allure has been particularly strong. The Temples of Khajuraho and Varanasi trip is a 5-day journey through India’s spiritual side.

It combines the ancient Hindu temples of Madhya Pradesh with India’s most holy city, Varanasi, where the devout come to bathe in the sacred waters of the Ganges.

Culture also stretches beyond art, cuisine, architecture, and religion.

Dharavi, Mumbai’s largest slum has something equally important to offer visitors to India.

Goway’s partnership with a local non-profit organization ensures visitors a respectful and non-voyeuristic walking tour of Dharavi, usually guided by someone who grew up in the district.

This is the slum made famous by the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, and this walking tour offers Globetrotters a fuller understanding of its complex, resilient community.

Indonesia is another Asian destination rich with opportunities for curious culture vultures.

Goway’s seven-day Bali to Jakarta trip takes travellers from the country’s only Hindu majority island to one of Asia’s busiest, most fascinating cities.

This trip covers many of Indonesia’s highlights, but Yogyakarta in particular stands out, being home to both the Hindu temples of Prambanan, and the huge Buddhist temple of Borobodur.

As well, the trip takes in Mount Bromo, and several of the local villages in West Java before reaching the capital.

The authentic encounters with local culture, past and present, don’t stop in Asia.

Halfway across the Pacific, the Islands of Tahiti offer much more than bungalows on (or over) the water.

The island of Huahine in particular, fascinates both professional and amateur archaeologists with over 200 ancient stone structures, testament to French Polynesia’s long and rich history.

Goway’s Sacred Sites and Legendary Places excursion takes Globetrotters on a two-hour journey through the island’s past with an expert anthropologist.

It also takes in some of the natural highlights of Huahine, ending with a view over the island’s famous lagoon.

For those who really want to get out there, Papua New Guinea is the final frontier.

Over 700 tribes continue to live a lifestyle unchanged by time.

Add to that the appeal of a rugged rainforest landscape surrounded by white sand beaches, and you have a destination that appeals to culture vultures and adrenaline junkies alike.

Goway’s Wonders of New Guinea is an ideal nine-day introduction to perhaps the world’s last truly unchanged native culture.

For more, go to http://www.Goway.com.