A Jenia led tour of our neighborhood inside the old city of Chiang Mai — ends up at a massage center at the Wat Sum Pao, where an hour of Thai massage will only run you 130 baht, or $4. Amazing.
Walking around Guilin — enjoying the street food, but not the prices for tourist attractions!
Black sea resort in Russia or East China sea resort in Vietnam? Yes, we are in Nha Trang – also known as Russian town to the Vietnamese. Kind of cool for us, sort of like a walk down the memory lane when we were little and went to the sea in the summer. This was…
One of the biggest clichés in travel writing is how this one place or that other place is full of contradictions. Grand, old buildings mixed-in with cutting edge, modern architecture, a striking mix of cultures or religions in cafes and on the street, old money next to new money and how that contrast pales next to…
A rather bumpy ride on a colonial-era train from Bago to Mawlamyien
A look at Hue’s iconic Thiên Mụ Pagoda on the banks of perfume river. The pagoda is part of an active monastery complex, which among other things, displays a powder blue Austin Martin that the honorable monk Thich Quang Duc drove to Saigon in 1963. Upon arrival in the South’s capital, Thich Quang Duc immolated himself to protest…