Underrated Cities in Southeast Asia to Add to Your Trip Itineraries

Underrated Cities in Southeast Asia to Add to Your Itinerary from Battambang to Yogyakarta. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.


The underrated cities in Southeast Asia to add to your Asia trip itineraries include provincial cities such as Cambodia’s lovely riverside Battambang, which feels like a big country town, to laidback Yogyakarta, the capital of the Indonesian island of Java, which is popular with local tourists, but gets few foreign travellers. Each city is worth … Read more

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia You Can’t Miss

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Southeast Asia. Luang Prabang Night Market, Laos. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

UNESCO World Heritage sites in Southeast Asia you can’t miss include everything from the near perfectly preserved historic centres of Luang Prabang in Laos and Hoi An in Vietnam to the spectacular sprawling temple sites of Angkor Archaeological Park in Cambodia, Sukhothai Historical Park in Thailand, and Bagan Archaeological Zone in Myanmar. Southeast Asia is … Read more

Soto Ayam in Yogyakarta – Indonesia’s Chicken Noodle Soup for the Soul

Street stall breakfast noodle soup (Soto Ayam), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Soto ayam in Yogyakarta is an aromatic breakfast soup found right across Indonesia’s archipelago. Fondly called the country’s ‘chicken noodle soup for the soul’ and sold from charming food carts, Yogyakarta’s soto ayam has a light broth that’s clear and fragrant. I’d like to think that we went to Yogyakarta for Java‘s awe-inspiring archaeological sites, … Read more