By some misfortunate timing (such is life in a leaderless non-organization such as rainbow), two important asian gatherings are happening simultaneously in May 2008: the World Gathering in China, and the Peace in the Middle East Gathering in Turkey. Personally, since I have connections with China (my wife is fully and my daughters are half Chinese descent), my pick would have to be the World Gathering in China.

The World Gatherings have a strong legacy of success-- check out this youtube of the first ever rainbow gathering in China: www.youtube.com/watch

Scouting energy is already flowing from the Intergalactic Gathering in Mexico to China. Here's the announcement:

CONSENSUS reached in the vision council in the World Rainbow Gathering in Thailand:

The next World Rainbow will be in China.
Seed camp to start New Moon april 8 2008
Gathering to start new Moon to new moon
may 6 2008
june 3 2008

groups.yahoo.com/group/chinacaravan/


Or, for those who prefer to go to Turkey in May, and support peace in the Middle East:

3rd Peace in the Middle East Rainbow Gathering 2008 Turkey

The Gathering starts on new moon 6th May 2008,
and ends on new moon 4th June 2008
Full Moon is May 19th

We invite all people of the Middle East to reunite and declare their intentions for Harmony, Unity and Peace.

We also invite people of all Nations to come and support this vision.

We have started a new tradition of peaceful relations within the Middle East.

groups.yahoo.com/group/mideastgathering/
groups.yahoo.com/group/turkeycaravan/