My Thailand experience is limited to one 12-hour layover, so I personally am devoid of advice for travelling to this very popular southeast Asian country. Happily, I was sent the following post of useful information for me and you. Going travelling is something that requires a lot of researching, planning and saving, such as where [...]

The vastness of Vietnam causes travelers not only to take days or weeks traversing the country from north to south or vice versa but allows us to experience a gold mine of areas that differ greatly one from the other along the way. Amongst all of this southeast Asian country’s unique locales, it wasn’t difficult [...]

When planning my trip to Southeast Asia, I decided to head to Cambodia before Vietnam in large part because, as an American, I had to apply for a visa before I traveled to the latter country. I didn’t want to go to the expense and trouble of sending off my passport to the Vietnamese embassy [...]

Macau – yet another destination where I’ve never headed and may never end up. I’ve heard that this little region approximately 40 miles southwest of Hong Kong is big on gambling. The following post which I was sent confirms that Macua is indeed where you want to if want to go to Asia and are [...]

Nha Trang was the first location I hit in Vietnam. When visiting this long, thin country of approximately 1,650 kilometers from north to south, most people start at either the bottom or the top. I started in the middle. That is pure me. Nha Trang seemed to be calling to me, as it’s a lively [...]

Hindsight frequently clears up everything. Sometimes it can leave you with a little regret too. I feel I spent my time in Southeast Asia well. Some experiences, though, in which I had absolutely no interest at the time I now kind of wish I had gone for. Now that I’m back in the Middle East [...]

Dear Tuk-Tuk Driver, I know writing this will do nothing to change your behavior, but I will waste my time anyway. Stop harrassing me. I have an extremely high tolerance for behavior which other people, especially women, absolutely hate. But nowhere, nowhere on earth have I felt harrassed to the extent I did during my [...]

Cambodia is raw, undeveloped, wild and real. Its rural villages and the small towns it calls cities hum along undisturbed alongside its far more modern neighbors of Thailand and Vietnam. It seems odd to me that this Asian jungle country’s most famous attraction is not simply the land itself, in which three million people were [...]