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Asia Archive
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Tips for Trekking Northern Thailand
Share Guidebooks and travel agencies advertise similar things in their hill trek tours: staying in a far removed hill tribe, cooking and eating native cuisine, elephant rides, visiting tea plantations,…
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Valentine’s Day: The Korean Way
Share Up with the pink hearts, the lipstick kisses, the bows and arrows! Valentine´s Day is one of my favorite holidays, specifically for its commercialization. In South Korea, where femininity,…
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Funky Filipino Flavors: Unique Food of the Philippines
Share It’s no Cambodia, but the Philippinescertainly has its fair share of unusual delicacies. A true gourmand could spend months encountering wild flavors, textures, and customs. Recounted here is a sampling…
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Where to Find the Cheapest Prescription Eye Glasses in South East Asia
Share We’ve scoured the earth (or at least south east Asia) searching for the cheapest prescription eye glasses available at retail. And it looks like Manila is the winner when…
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Balinese Cremation Ceremony: The Celebration of a Life
Share I was lucky enough during my time living in Bali to attend a Hindu cremation ceremony or Ngaben. A woman from my colleagues family had died three days prior….
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Harajuku Autumn
Share I was a chikan virgin no longer. Being at the receiving end of a chikan incident is essentially akin to having someone feel you up while travelling by train. I had…
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Shooting Range Price List
Share If you’ve traveled in southeast Asia you’ve no doubt heard the stories about the legendary shooting range in Cambodia. This militarily operated gun range on the outskirts of Phnom…
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Bali: An Island in Silence
Share Nyepi is the name of the Balinese Hindu New Year. It is the only place on earth that observes 24 hours of silence and for me a whole day…
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Fuji-san
Share Somewhere between the eighth and ninth station I thought I would give up. My body was covered in a thin film of sweat. I smelled. My hair stuck to…
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Fussa, Japan: Tanabata Matsuri
Share The shudder of a thousand plastic ribbons blowing in the breeze resonated throughout the streets. It was the Tanabata Matsuri, a large summer festival celebrated all through Japan. Behind me…
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Chatuchak Market, Thailand: Shop Like a Local in the JJ Market
Share Chatuchak Market, or JJ as it is called by the locals and in this article, is one of the largest markets in Southeast Asia. It is a city of…
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How to Get Off The Beaten Path In Cambodia
Share So far, I have eight visas in my passport and four of them are Cambodian visas; it’s safe to say I like traveling there alot. Cambodia may be smaller than…
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So, You Want To Save The Earth?
Share Travelling and being environmentally conscious go hand in hand; who wants to travel halfway around the world to see a river filled with sewage or a majestic mountain littered…
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Nakano, Japan: On Broadway
Share It is only eleven o’clock and it is already well over eighty degrees Fahrenheit. In an effort of reduce as much energy as possible, the lights in the train…
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Super Dollfie: A Glimpse into Japan’s World of Ball and Joint Dolls
Share I stood before a polished glass display case looking into the vacuous eyes of a doll. Her hair was a fine shade of burgundy, brushed with care to ensure…
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Mai Dreamin: Surviving the Akihabara Maids
Share Akihabara is easily one of my favorite places to visit, if only for the fact that I see something bizarre and novel every time that I go there. On…
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Rubble Rousing in a Changing China
Share Slowly, I rode. Letting the bicycle take me where it saw fit. On the outskirts of the city, I turned up a weary dirt path. In the distance, I could see big…
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Looking to Ueno
Share Although it is at the height of popularity during the Sakura Matsuri, or Cherry Blossom Festival, Ueno Park is also a site for weekly events that many visitors may…
