Phuket Travel Guide
A Month on Phuket — Sun, Sand, Sea, and Food
A month on Phuket — sun, sand, sea, and food. That was our focus over thirty days on the Southern Thailand island. When we weren't eating and cooking, we were squeezing in swims, strolls and surfs. ...
How To Eat Like Locals When You Travel
How to eat like locals when you travel? There’s an abundance of advice out there: slurp soup from a street food stall, sample home-cooked food at a local home, savour creative cuisine at a secret ...
Asian Food Etiquette — Eating, Drinking and Dining Etiquette
Asian food etiquette isn't rocket science. So why do so many travellers in Asia get it so wrong? So you don't become one of them, here's our guide to Asian food etiquette, whether you're eating ...
Asian Travel Etiquette — Greetings, Gestures and Good Manners
Asian travel etiquette is not so complicated to understand, nor is it mysterious. Almost every Asian guidebook, travel website and those free little tourist magazines seem to have a section on etiquette — how you should ...
Celebrating Songkran in Thailand – A Big Water Fight and Buddhist Festival
Celebrating Songkran in Thailand means getting absolutely soaked. The traditional Theravāda Buddhist festival to mark Thai New Year has turned into one big water fight over the years. While you can still visit pagodas to ...
12 Reasons We Are Smitten With South East Asia
We spent a lot of time in 2011 in South East Asia. Based out of Bangkok for four months while researching a book and working on stories, we bounced across the region on assignments, around ...