Bhaktapur – Nepal’s Ancient City the Tourist Buses Skip
Bhaktapur is the best-preserved medieval city in the Kathmandu Valley. A guide to its three squares, the Nyatapola Temple, and why it is worth more than a quick stop.
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Patan (Lalitpur) – The Kathmandu Valley’s City of Bronze and Beauty
Patan is the finest of the three royal cities in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley – extraordinary Newari bronze workshops, the best museum in Nepal, and a Durbar Square that survived the 2015 earthquake remarkably intact.
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Pokhara, Nepal – Where the Quality of Life Seems Almost Unfair
Two months living in Pokhara: what it costs, how it feels, and why this lakeside city under the Himalayas is one of Asia’s best long-stay destinations.
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The Mardi Himal Trek: Pokhara’s Secret Mountain Path
The Mardi Himal trek is one of Nepal’s most beautiful and least-known routes – a ridge walk above 4,000m with unobstructed Annapurna views and almost no crowds.
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Penang and the Slow Asian Heritage I Keep Coming Back To
George Town, Penang – a UNESCO city of shophouses, clan houses, street art, and the best food in Malaysia by a mile. After two visits in the same year, here is what makes Penang the multicultural Asian heritage town most travellers skip.
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Okinawa in December – Subtropical Japan, Ryukyu Culture, and a Quiet Year-End
My first introduction to Japan was not Tokyo or Kyoto – it was five days in Okinawa in December 2018 with Natha. Subtropical island weather, Shuri Castle, Churaumi Aquarium, goya champuru, awamori, and the half-not-Japan culture of the old Ryukyu Kingdom.
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Kathmandu in the Monsoon: My Second Himalayan Experience
Arriving in Kathmandu in July monsoon – Pashupatinath, Boudhanath, the Monkey Temple, and the Himalayas. My first Nepal trip and why I came back for three months.
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Krabi Travel Guide: Railay Beach, Rock Climbing, and the Andaman Coast
Krabi: The Andaman Coast at Its Most Dramatic The landscape that defines Krabi is vertical: limestone karst towers emerging from the sea and from the flat land around the Krabi River estuary, covered in jungle to their summits, their bases undercut by the tides into caves and overhangs. You see this landscape first from the…
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Phuket Travel Guide: Beaches, Temples, and the Surprising Old Town
Phuket: Thailand’s Island Province The name Phuket conjures, for most people, a very specific image: long white beaches, blue water, high-rise hotels, and the full apparatus of mass tourism. That image is accurate for the west coast. What it misses is Phuket Town, in the south of the island, which is one of the best-preserved…
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Bangkok Travel Guide: Getting the Most Out of Thailand’s Capital
Bangkok: Thailand’s Capital Bangkok is not a city that eases you in gently. It deposits you in the middle of itself — the heat, the noise, the traffic, the temples visible between the elevated highways, the smell of grilled pork from a cart on the corner at midnight — and you either adapt quickly or…
