Usually, I'd describe train travel in India as "efficient", "cheap", and "culturally immersive", but every once in a while, the experience is better described as "crowded", "convoluted", and…
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Ha Giang has something in common with most truly awesome places; it is just hard enough to get to that it has withstood the ravages of time. Adventurers go trekking in Sapa in pursuit of… -
To describe ourselves in Tokyo as “kids in a candy store” would be cheap writing. It was equally overwhelming, certainly surreal, and we binged on all of our… -
Hanoi, Vietnam. Hanoi-ing, I once heard it called. I came with an unmannerly expectation it would be one of those "no thanks, I'm just passing through" kinds of…
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With influences from Southeast Asia, neighboring China, and faraway France, Northern Vietnam's cuisine COULD have become a haphazard mix of influences, none of them cohesive, and…
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What could possibly be so spectacular about some rocks that prodigious authors only tell of them as supernatural, and influential leaders can’t so much as describe them?
February 25, 2016
