An insider’s guide to Penang
IT’S hard for me to be objective about Penang since it’s my home island. I can though be truthful. So if you’re visiting Penang for purely sun, sand and sea, you’ll be disappointed….
Destination: The umbilical cord shrine for King Sejong’s children (Seongju, Gyeongsangnam-do)
”Welcome to the middle of nowhere,” I thought as we arrived at the Seongju bus terminal. As per my own tradition, I walked out of the bus terminal to the closest intersection and…
Arts, eats and music: Exploring Melbourne’s Fitzroy
IT’S grungy, it’s trendy, it’s the place to be in Melbourne: Brunswick Street in the inner city suburb of Fitzroy has bags of character and some of Melbourne’s best cheap eats. Decades of…
Destination: Chuncheon Animation Museum (Chuncheon, Gangwon-do)
The country’s first museum dedicated to animation makes for an interesting day trip, as my girlfriend and I found out not too long ago. Unlike Seoul’s own cartoon and animation museum (check out…
In pictures: the old and new Yangon
WITH one foot embedded in the past and the other taking its first steps into the present, Yangon is very much a city of the old and the new. Here you’ll find some…
Perfect Mother’s Day escapes
SPAS, beach holidays, good food, wildlife experiences… here are some perfect ways to treat your mum this Mother’s Day around Asia. Spa and health holiday Asia is brimming with resorts with health treatments,…
Is Burma Asia’s next expat haven?
IT has been widely reported that Burma is experiencing a tourism boom as the government continues to relax its iron grip on the nation and introduce reforms. In 2011 numbers jumped 30 percent…
Melbourne building rates amongst world’s top 10 eyesores
THE quirky Pixel Building in Melbourne rates among the world’s ugliest. Travel website Trippy.com put together a list of the world’s ugliest buildings based on staff and travellers’ opinions. Boasting the weird, the…
Destination: Changgyeonggung at night
While not as good as Robert Koehler’s recent pictures, Changgyeonggung at night offers a more intimate look at one of Seoul’s five palaces. It’s not currently open at night, but keep your eyes…
Bukhara: Uzbekistan’s Silk Road wonder
BUKHARA has been an oasis in Uzbekistan’s dry landscape since before the days of the Silk Road trading routes and seeing the flowering of Islamic architecture here is a shortcut to travel paradise….
