Southeast Asia

Travel blogs, travel photos and features from Southeast Asia

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Koh Chang & Lonely Beach — Thailand’s hippie getaway

Looking back on my trip to Koh Chang and Lonely Beach in Thailand

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Viet Dream Travel & Hostel in Saigon

Review of the Viet Dream Travel hostel dormitory on Bui Vien Street in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Backpackers; balcony and air-con!

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Bangkok’s hipster & vintage night market: Ratchada-Ladphrao

Bangkok has lots of great shopping markets, but the Ratchada-Ladphrao night market & Ladphrao bazaar every Saturday night is Bangkok’s most hipster market.

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Street art in Indonesia: Yogyakarta

I’m always interested in finding the alternative districts and areas of the cities I visit (like Kreuzberg in Berlin, or Silom in Bangkok), so when Jimmy from Strange-Lands.com contacted me about Yogyakarta in…

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Photos from Ta Prohm temple at Angkor Wat

When I look back at my 18 months of traveling around the world, Cambodia is one of a few countries that stands out. I spent one month backpacking in Cambodia and it was…

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Sunset at Halong Bay, Vietnam

Sitting here in my flat in Berlin (pretend I’m British for a moment, will you?), I can’t help but remember that just two months ago I was on a boat trip in Halong…

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VIDEO: Adam eats Balut (fertilized duck embryo) in Vietnam

I had a lot of reasons to visit Vietnam while traveling Southeast Asia, but one of the big ones was the food. I didn’t grow up eating Vietnamese food (in fact, I’m pretty sure…

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Cruising the Mighty Mekong

The following is a sponsored guest post. Think “cruises” & you may well conjure a vision of pensioners sedately spending their kids’ inheritance as they drift around the Med, but that reputation is…

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Getting spoiled in Saigon

For the past week I’ve been staying with some extended family of mine (for simplicity’s sake – an aunt, uncle & cousin) in the city formerly known as Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City)….

Hello from Hanoi: an update on my travel plans

Sometimes I just feel the need to write out what I’m thinking. And being a blogger, the opportunity is easily accomplished. So, I’m in Hanoi, Vietnam. It took me about two weeks to…

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