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business & pleasure in jakarta (Indonesia)
This ~76 page booklet from the 1970s is so breathtakingly outdated now that it could have been dug out of a time capsule. All the more reason to enjoy reading it … just don’t depend on anything you read! Grade: 2

Code: 50000184
Price: $29.00
Jakarta General Map (Indonesia)
Dating from October 2010, a large and typical folded official tourist map that could not hope to capture all the alleys and lanes but that captured the essence of the sprawling city anyway. Grade: 1

Code: 50000185
Price: $7.00
Indonesia Arrival/Departure Card
Our scan shows the front (instructions) side of an old Indonesia immigration card, no longer in use. We do not miss being asked for “gifts” at the counter. Grade: 1

Code: 50000186
Price: $6.00
Tokyo Disneyland: Souvenir 1983 Guidebook
The Park opened on 15th April 1983, so this would be one of its original souvenir items, a 21-page folder (not a postcard) telling folks everything they needed to know, including the Adult General Admission price of Y2,500. It’s gone up a bit since then. Grade: 1

Code: 50000187
Price: $49.00
Panmunjom (South Korea)
We would enjoy telling you about our multiple visits to the Panmunjom border area — from both sides — but this is not the place for it. Here however is a 1990s folder offering tours from the southern side to the DMZ. Grade: 1

Code: 50000188
Price: $9.00
Itaewon, Seoul (South Korea)
From 2001, this is actually a large folded map of all of Seoul, with various other helpful hints. Itaewon has long been a favourite shopping and nightlife area for foreigners visiting or living in Seoul, yet for us at least, the entire shopping element of it was notable for shops being crammed full of items we had no interest whatsoever in buying. Grade: 1

Code: 50000189
Price: $14.00
North Korea’s Underground Military Infiltration Tunnels (South Korea)
This 19-page and somewhat strident effort from South Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Information in 1987 was available at the DMZ. It does nothing to cool the rhetorical war, but that was not its intention. Grade: 1

Code: 50000190
Price: $34.00
Learning Alphabetical Dance Notation (DPR Korea)
At the time (1990s) we had thought this was a uniquely North Korean activity, but a quick Google search just now turned this up (abridged): “Dance notation is the symbolic representation of human dance movement and form, using graphic symbols and figures, path mapping, numerical systems, and letter and word notations. Several dance notation systems have been invented, many of which are designed to document specific types of dance while others have been developed with capturing the broader spectrum of human movement potential.” Perhaps not many countries build an entire tour around it as the Koreans did, though. Trust us: it was complicated. Grade: 1

Code: 50000191
Price: $49.00
Mt. Myohyang (DPR Korea)
Mt. Myohyang is a North Korean tourist attraction, off and on, with various hiking routes. Apart from the view, tourists are attracted by the Pohyon temple, built in the 11th century, the Sangwon hermitage, the Kumgang hermitage, and the Habiro hermitage. Notably, at Myohyang-san is the International Friendship Exhibition centre, dubbed the world’s biggest treasure-house. On exhibit are presents received by North Korean leaders over the years. One building stores the presents given to Kim Il-sung, while a smaller one holds those given to his son Kim Jong-il. We do not know if any facility houses gifts to the current leader, but it would be hard to top the stuffed cayman (we think) holding a tray of drinks. This folder from Korea International Tourist Bureau dates from the 1990s. Grade: 1

Code: 50000193
Price: $49.00
Tour for Traditional Korean Medical Treatment (DPR Korea)
One might not normally associate North Korea with medical tourism, but this was in the early 1990s when, apparently, someone there thought it might be a good idea to offer this month-long programme. A single-sheet folder with the daily schedule. Grade: 1

Code: 50000194
Price: $89.00
Information Map for Tourists (DPR Korea)
A magnificently large and un-detailed folded map, with assorted helpful facts and figures, moot for most visitors who will not be allowed to see these places anyway. This item dates from the 1990s, and is official publication No. 808301. Grade: 1

Code: 50000195
Price: $129.00
Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center, Kaohsiung (Taiwan)
A small, concise yet ultra-complete single-sheet folded guide (not a postcard) to this sprawling complex just outside of Kaohsiung City. Bring comfortable shoes! Grade: 1

Code: 50000197
Price: $3.00
Tamsui (Taiwan)
Entirely in Chinese, this is a reasonably detailed, folded map of the area from the early 2000s. Grade: 2

Code: 50000199
Price: $9.00
This Month in Taiwan (November 2015)
Volume 42, No. 11, of this 94-page monthly guide that seems more like an encyclopedia. If only we (or anyone) had time to read it all. Grade: 1

Code: 50000200
Price: $12.00
Taiwan Tours
Offered by Huei Fong Travel Service in Taipei, in 2015 at least, this large, folded, single-sheet brochure showing what was available all over the island. Grade: 1

Code: 50000201
Price: $7.00
Welcome to San Salvador – travel brochure
Picked up in 1967 and, by now somewhat moth-eaten, this single-sheet brochure has little notes throughout and didn’t really sell the city too well. Grade: 5

Code: 50000213
Price: $3.00
El Salvador, travel brochure
Multi-foldout from the mid-1960s, with Izalco Volcano on the front. From the El Salvador Travel Information Center in New York, and in English. Grade: 1

Code: 50000214
Price: $9.00
El Salvador, Sihualteca Tours
The company’s either gone or not online, but in 1967 they offered a good variety of tours — some of which are checked off inside this single-sheet folded brochure. Grade: 3

Code: 50000216
Price: $8.00
Johannesburg, Atlas Tours
Single-sheet folded brochure from the mid-1970s. Grade: 1

Code: 50000217
Price: $7.00
Johannesburg Day & Night (June 1975)
The sort of folded brochure you might pick up at the front desk of your hotel as you start your first day of touring. Everything you ever wanted to know, on one large piece of paper. Grade: 1

Code: 50000218
Price: $12.00
Welcome to the Kenya Coast – brochure
From the Kenya Government in 1965, before much of anything touristic was there, this well-preserved, fold-out single-sheet brochure. Grade: 1

Code: 50000219
Price: $9.00
Voyages au Mali
From L’Office Malien du Tourisme, in French, the mid-1960s, and single-sheet large foldout, this travel brochure was so alluring that it convinced us to go to Timbuktu — even if the folder failed to mention some of the considerable roadblocks facing us once we got there. Grade: 1

Code: 50000220
Price: $16.00
Leningrad – travel brochure
Published by Intourist in (probably) the mid-1960s, this single-sheet brochure is large and folds up as a big map would. And as it happens, it does have a map of sorts inside. In English, and glowing with praise for the Soviet Union. Grade: 1

Code: 50000222
Price: $14.00
Papua New Guinea Outgoing Passenger Card
Our scan shows the front and reverse of this single card from 2017. Grade: 1

Code: 50000230
Price: $9.00
The Stanley Welcomes You to Papua New Guinea (January – July 2017)
PNG must be one of the most diverse and richly coloured nations on the planet, and it’s sad that security issues override almost everything a visitor wants to do. While that can now be said of many other countries too, it is especially true in PNG still. This 52-page guide did its best to put a smiling face on the entire experience. Grade: 1

Code: 50000231
Price: $49.00
Timor-Leste Arrival/Departure Card (2012)
Immigration card from 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 50000232
Price: $19.00
Timor-Leste Customs Declaration Form (2012)
We fondly recall being asked by our hotel, as ordinary tourists, to bring in various cleaning supplies the hotel could not otherwise get. We hope that situation has improved by now. (Nobody cared, at the airport.) Grade: 1

Code: 50000233
Price: $11.00
East Timor
This 2012 multi-sheet travel folder comes from timormegatours, which managed not to spell its name out in an ordinary way at all. Grade: 1

Code: 50000234
Price: $11.00
Discover Timor-Leste
What makes this 29-page guide from 2012 somewhat more desirable is that it was published at all, since ordinary tourism as we think of it was just in its infancy, and getting around was not particularly easy. We had been strongly urged not to venture too far from anywhere, but at the end we had a great trip with no problems whatsoever. Grade: 1

Code: 50000235
Price: $69.00
Philippines Arrival Card (2012)
Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 50000236
Price: $5.00
Rustic Guide to Dili (May – Jul 2012) (Timor-Leste)
The 16th Edition of this large and — yes — somewhat rustic guide to Dili’s city centre as well as to the immediate surrounding area. Either most of the streets didn’t have names, or the map didn’t use them. Grade: 1

Code: 50000237
Price: $39.00
Welcome Aboard – Carnival (USA)
We freely admit, plenty of cruise ship paraphernalia are (is?) available for sale online. It just depends exactly what you’re looking for. And if you took a Carnival Cruise from Florida in 2003, you got this 33-page pamphlet as you boarded the Paradise. Grade: 1

Code: 50000239
Price: $12.00
Carnival Capers (2003)
Further to our entry 50000239, once onboard the Carnival Paradise, these newsletters were available every day. You had no excuse for missing anything. Grade: 1

Code: 50000240
Price: $19.00
a guide to Dar Es Salaam
Here is a 72-page brochure from Tanzania Information Services in about 1965 (mentioning the “newly formed United Republic of Tanzania”), comprehensive and quite useful at the time. Grade: 1

Code: 50000241
Price: $45.00
50 Reasons to visit Singapore
In January 2016, hutchgo.com (of Hong Kong) published this substantial and useful book of … reasons to visit Singapore. Much of the advice remains valid today, though Singapore — like other modern locations — evolves in its own way. Grade: 1

Code: 50000242
Price: $11.00
Macau Tourist Guide (Jun – Dec 2006)
Completely bilingual (English/Chinese), and with 69 pages the kind of guide you might like to study before you ever left home. Grade: 1

Code: 50000244
Price: $16.00
Macau Tourist Map
Large, single-sheet, multi-fold map issued in 2006. The entire city/region has grown substantially since then, even as its economy was decimated by the loss of casino revenue due to Covid. Grade: 1

Code: 50000245
Price: $14.00
Dongguan Tour (PR China)
From the Dongguan Tourism Bureau undated but possibly from the early 2000s. This is a sturdy book of roughly 56 pages and a great introduction even now to this massive Chinese urban area that so few people not living nearby know anything about — or have even heard of. There is a high probability something in your home right now was made there. Grade: 1

Code: 50000246
Price: $39.00
Amazing Hong Kong map (2001)
We’ve scoured this map looking for printed proof that it does date from 2001, but all we have found is that penciled notation on the front. But based on what we see, and what we know about later changes, that looks about right. Grade: 2

Code: 50000252
Price: $6.00
Exciting things to do in Hong Kong (July 1977)
Single-sheet folded brochure with 70+ one or two-line suggestions on what a visitor might do. They were good suggestions then, but not all are practical (or available at all) now — e.g., Tiger Balm Gardens. Grade: 1

Code: 50000253
Price: $9.00

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