Whether your primary goal is to partake in an ultra-local experience or simply to avoid exorbitant airfares, travel overland from Vietnam to Laos — but don’t expect a quick or particular comfortable journey.
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The Best of Delhi in a Day
If you’re efficient and move quickly, one day is all you need to enjoy Delhi, India’s best-known tourist attractions—and even a few more obscure ones.
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The coastline of Goa, India is long enough that you should have an idea of where you want to go before you get there.
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Avoid getting talked into scams in Bangkok and other places along the road to Cambodia to save yourself time, money and perhaps most importantly, your sanity.
Continue ReadingTiffany’s “Ladyboy” Show in Pattaya, Thailand
No matter your reason for visitng Pattaya, Thailand, you owe yourself an evening with the “ladies” of Tiffany’s Show.
Continue ReadingMui Ne, Vietnam’s Disappearing Beach
The only thing stranger than the paved beach of Mui Ne, Vietnam? The fact that it sits just miles from some of the largest sand dunes in Asia.
Continue ReadingDoes Boracay Live Up To The Hype?
Like so many of the developing world’s previously well-kept secrets, this sandcastle island of Boracay in the Philippines calls into question the extent to which a cool place stays cool once uncool people make a habit of going there.
Continue ReadingWWII History in Corregidor Island, Philippines
About 28 miles from the Philippine capital at the mouth of Manila Bay sits Corregidor, a tadpole-shaped island that was the last Allied holdout in the Pacific during World War II–and yet strangely, has gone all-but-unmentioned in film and television productions commemorating the conflict.
Continue ReadingA Lake Inside a Volcano Inside a Lake
If you mention the world “Ta’al” to a Filipino, the first image to pops into his mind will likely be that of an active volcano just south of Manila. The second — if there is one — is a town with the same name and charm.
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Thanks to the many flags that have flown over it, Manila possesses a complex charm that calls to mind every period of its long history.
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