Songkran – the Thai New Year – is normally a joyous, water-soaked, three-day party. But that was before Covid-19. In 2020, Songkran has been canceled, the legal holidays...
Thailand didn't impose its national 10 p.m-4 a.ml curfew until April 3, but Bangkok's streets and subways looked as if it had already taken effect a day before.
A first trip to Yangon necessitates visits to its historic pagodas. But the best way to see the “real” Yangon is spending a half-day (or more) traveling the Yangon Circular...
For 851 years, an O-torii Gate has stood as the portal to Japan’s sacred Itsukushima Island. But, for the foreseeable future, the current version will be covered in tarp...
It has been 150 years since Japan’s emperor ordered his citizens to dress in western style, but the kimono refuses to die. Even today it retains a powerful hold on the Japanese...
Welcome to the new Vang Vieng, a kinder, gentler version of one of S.E. Asia’s most infamous hotbeds of hedonism. Like a Hollywood starlet, this ramshackle blotch with jagged...
Thailand may have the Maeklong Railway Market, but it has nothing on Hanoi’s Ngo 224 Le Duan, better known as “Train Street”. Before Instagram, this narrow Old Quarter...
Some call it the “slowest race in the world”: The Cigar Smoking World Championship is a test of how slowly and delicately one can burn through a cigar and, for the uninitiated,...