After coming back "enlightened” from my first long trip to East Asia, I decided to bring the "Far East” to everyone – online. It was back in 1997, when the WEB only started to develop, when I built the first Hebrew site for travel advise. The site, "Libi Bamizrah” (”My heart is in the east” – a spin-off of a poem title by the Hebrew poet Rabi Yehuda Halevi), is a step-by-step guide to people who plan a trip to East Asis.
Since 1997, many other travel related sites were founded, but "Libi Bamizrah” still draws thousands of hits every month. The site is maintained for no reward but a spiritual one. For a long time, people could access a "personal advise form”, which was answered by myself. Understanding travelers’ needs for information prior to a trip was one of the triggers for writing the "India and Nepal” travel guidebook.
As part of the new look of the Guy Shachar website, "Libi Bamizrah” is now an attractive sub-site.
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