I’ve been in Pakse for three weeks, with nine days before the 30-day Lao visa expires. The original, but loose plan was to stay in

I found to my pleasant surprise that Khon Kaen in Isaan, Thailand is a city of unknown world wonders. The above Thung Sethi has been

It was day 30 of 30 of my Lao stamp validity. The wonderful woman at the In Touch Guesthouse in Vientiane had said that she

Temple gazing has never been high on my travel to-do list. Like so many people traveling in SE Asia, I have taken the stance of:

To call Luang Namtha a ghost town would be an exaggeration. However, in a country of under eight million people, the town has less than

The smallish city of Chiang Rai, not to be confused with its bigger cousin of Chiang Mai, (187 km south), is a good city for

After virtual teleportation up and across the grand globe, and finally touching down in Southeast Asia’s humongous hub of Bangkok, I was unsurprisingly bombarded with

Traveling across the earth threw me for a loop. There was not a thought about being on the receiving end of extreme jet lag. When

Because I had read more bad than good about Guatemala City, I loosely considered skipping it. However, I would come to realize that la capital

As the subcontinental railway is the pulse of colorful India, the fixed-up former school buses from north of Mexico are the man-made vibration of greenery-laden