Three old friends from my Beijing days and I reunited after a few years for a weeklong trip to Myanmar (previously known as Burma). Th...

I took a trip to Indonesia with two close friends from China. For our last day in the island paradise of Bali, we rented a car and driver...

Picturesque and quaint, Hoi An is a delightful Vietnamese town located at about the midway point of the nation longitudinally. Although ...

Several hours east of Hanoi lies Vietnam's most spectacular sight - Ha Long Bay. Thousands of jagged isles spring out of the Gulf of To...

I explored the sprawling grounds of the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia with my parents over three days. The largest collection of rel...

While spending a few days in Kuala Lumpur with some old friends from my Beijing days, we went on a drive to Putrajaya. Located 25km aw...

As darkness falls in Bangkok, its bustling markets full of food and clothing give way to markets of flesh and a lack of clothing. It is ...

The Southeast Asian equivalent of North America's Great Lakes is the Tonle Sap, a mammoth freshwater lake spanning nine Cambodian pr...

A rite of passage for travellers visiting Laos is waking up at dawn in Luang Prabang to watch a stream of saffron clad monks collect al...

The people of Laos take the definition of laid back to a whole new level. The old joke is that the "PDR" in Lao PDR stands for ...

This year's edition of the epic forty day trip focused on some classic backpacker destinations in Southeast Asia. With so many tourists...