We would to take this opportunity at inform you, our valued clients that The Travel Architect has been accredited by Association of South African Travel Agents(ASATA).  Thank you for your continued support and well wishes.

The University of Stellenbosch with the support of ASATA is doing research to identify the benefits you receive from co-producing a trip with your travel agent. Co-production is the process whereby you and a travel agent jointly plan a trip.

A new research has shown that meditation produces powerful pain-relieving effects in the brain.

“This is the first study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation,” said Fadel Zeidan, lead author of the study and post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

“We found a big effect - about a 40 per cent reduction in pain intensity and a 57 per cent reduction in pain unpleasantness. Meditation produced a greater reduction in pain than even morphine or other pain-relieving drugs, which typically reduce

Life in India would grind to a halt (or so it seems) without the following two questions being asked by almost every person you encounter during your journey:  Where do you come from? and where are you going?  Once these two questions have been satisfactorily answered the universe breathes a sign of relief and life as we know if can continue.

During my travels to India the conversation I dread the most goes something like this:-

Mahashivaratri Festival or the ‘The Night of Shiva’ is celebrated with devotion and religious fervor in honor of Lord Shiva, one of the deities of Hindu Trinity. Shivaratri falls on the moonless 14th night of the new moon in the Hindu month of Phalgun, which corresponds to the month of February - March in English Calendar. Celebrating the festival of Shivaratri devotees observe day and night fast and perform ritual worship of Shiva Lingam to appease Lord Shiva.

Compliments of the season to you! May 2011 be a joyful, happy and prosperous year for you and your loved ones.

2011 sees the Cricket world cup being hosted in India, the Shopping festival taking place in Dubai 20 Jan – 20 Feb and Sivaratri one of the most revered festivals celebrated by Hindus throughout the world, so we have much to look forward to during the months ahead.

We have undertaken some exciting new products within our range for 2011 has brought with it the addition of ...