You’ll see the word “junk” popping up a lot when you’re planning a Bai Tu Long Bay Cruise. The tour descriptions promise nighttime sails aboard “a luxurious junk…
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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…
- 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…
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…
