Barbara King

Luxury Travel Advisor's Barbara King returns home and catches you up on Virtuoso Chairman's Event 3 days in Shanghai.

Barbara King of Great Getaways Travel continues to blog for Luxury Travel Advisor this week from China and in this post describes her trip to China's Great Wall.

Barbara King of Great Getaways Travel continues to blog for Luxury Travel Advisor this week from China and in this post describes visiting several sites around Beijing, including the Summer Palace.

Barbara King of Great Getaways Travel continues to blog for Luxury Travel Advisor this week from China and in this post describes traveling to Shanghai.

Barbara King of Great Getaways Travel is blogging for Luxury Travel Advisor this week from China, where Virtuoso's Chairman's event is taking place.

On October 29th after our visit to Harambee Center, Micato Safaris and AmericaShare arranged a luncheon at Ole-Sereni Hotel, Nairobi, for Virtuoso's sponsoring children through AmericaShare and our sponsored children.

"This is Heaven," my husband, Michael, remarked as we toured AmericaShare's Harambe Center, an oasis of hope in Mukuru slum, outside Nairobi. This, our third visit to Mukuru in recent years did not evoke the same gut wrenching emotions of despair as had the first two visits.

No catchy title to the blog post for today. My pals, Creative and Clever, took a sabbatical!

If you've been following along on my blog about the 2010 Virtuoso Chairman's Club Safari (you ARE taking copious notes, aren't you?), you'll know we've been at Fairmont Mara Safari Club for 3 nights. Yesterday was our last full day and I've already chronicled about...more >>

Yesterday afternoon I opted to stay at Fairmont Mara Safari Club rather than take the afternoon game drive. My bad! While dreaming about lions and leopards, the rest of the Virtuoso crowd actually saw them---and a herd of elephants, too! Grrrrr!