{"id":12975,"date":"2013-07-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/khiri-travel-launches-magnificent-seven-bicycle-and-walking-trips\/"},"modified":"2013-07-19T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T10:00:00","slug":"khiri-travel-launches-magnificent-seven-bicycle-and-walking-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/07\/khiri-travel-launches-magnificent-seven-bicycle-and-walking-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Khiri Travel Launches ‘Magnificent Seven’ Bicycle and Walking Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Khiri Travel has launched seven magnificent urban and rural walking and cycling trips in Southeast Asia.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The company, which emphasizes immersive and participatory responsible travel, aims to bring to life\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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discoveries and insights with a unique twist.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Three new walking tours have been designed to satisfy lovers of food, architecture and Asian urbania. The\u00a0Phnom Penh<\/a>\u00a0walking tour lets guests sample assorted street stall noodles, sweetmeats and delicacies including\u00a0apaing<\/i>\u00a0— deep-fried spiders. The trip ends in a brewery to calm the nerves.<\/span><\/div>\n

The\u00a0Phuket Old Town<\/a>\u00a0walking tour brings alive the Chinese clan heritage of the former tin mining island. The town’s Sino-Portuguese architectural heritage and the splendid mansions of tin mining barons are evocative of a by-gone era. The highlight is bijou Soi Romanee lane where guests can get a haircut in an old barber shop.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The\u00a0Yangon Heritage Walk<\/a>\u00a0celebrates the city with the largest number of extant colonial buildings in all of Southeast Asia. The well-researched video\u00a0Restoring Yangon<\/a>\u00a0indicates what to expect.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\n\"Theicycle riders have three choices:\u00a0Cycling the Plain of Jars<\/a>\u00a0in Laos,\u00a0Bicycling Bagan Without Temples<\/a>\u00a0(a trip across the Irrawaddy River to new Bagan), and\u00a0Ben Tre in the Mekong Delta<\/a>\u00a0of Vietnam, which celebrates family traditions across three generations of a rural household and lets clients participate in an ancestral death ceremony.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

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A two-day insight into the Karen mountain people (with overnight in the village) includes a bamboo raft ride, forest hike, gathering vegetables in the garden and food preparation. The setting is in\u00a0Huay Khao Lip<\/a>\u00a0mountain area, a 90-minute drive from Chiang Mai.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Willem Niemeijer, the CEO and co-founder of Khiri Travel, said: “These seven trips have been specifically designed to allow our guests to get closer to communities, enhance understanding and make local discoveries not available on most other outings.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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For further information and bookings on all trips, email\u00a0enquiries@khiri.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Khiri Travel has launched seven magnificent urban and rural walking and cycling trips in Southeast Asia. The company, which emphasizes immersive and participatory responsible travel, aims to bring to life\u00a0 discoveries and insights with a unique twist. Three new walking tours have been designed to satisfy lovers of food, architecture and Asian urbania. The\u00a0Phnom Penh\u00a0walking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}