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At the dawn of 20th century, Yangon was the Garden of the East, a flourishing city then at par in style with London. Manicured gardens, pretty lakes and rows of painted sash windows set flush in warmer brickworks dazzled in this part of Asia. After the English left Myanmar...

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  Sometime in the mid-80s, Murray Head swept the world with his wonder song, One Night in Bangkok. It talks about the city’s nightlife scenes being exotic and wild, deceptive and lustful. I was in my teen days then when it topped the charts. I never understood its imageries,...

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Bangkok is never Bangkok without its shopping attraction—in fact, its malls draw more tourists than its temples, day in and out. Whether you are a backpacker scrimping on a tight budget or the fur-collared, chihuahua-trotting madame, there is always something here that fits your fancy and budget. With a...

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  The temples in Bangkok are just as ubiquitous as there are 7-11 stores in every street corner. There are about 400 temples spread all around the city, each with its own character, story and cultural influences. Temple tours are one just of the many tourism highlights in Bangkok...

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  I am from the Philippines where beautiful beaches are common. So island hopping in Cambodia wasn’t really a major part of my itinerary. Anyhow, I got a few days off before I left for Thailand so I decided to check out what are Khmer beaches like. Well, they...

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Sihanoukville is the gateway to southern Cambodia’s best beaches, islands & nightlife. It hugs the rugged coast of Kampong Som Bay, 230 kilometers south of the capital city, Phnom Penh. After getting a temple overload in Siem Reap & the heartbreaking genocide museum visits in Phom Penh, Sihanoukville is...

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  Much of what we know about Phnom Penh in Cambodia is its war-torn past. Images of rusty planes and tanks, limbless mendicants and Red Cross camps are probably still stuck in our memories. That is what history taught us and sadly how the world media projects.    But...

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  Cambodia was one of the biggest battlefields in Southeast Asia. From the time of the ancient powerful Khmer empire until the 70s era of civil unrests, many lives have perished on its land. But nothing could probably come close to notoriety in the entire Cambodian history than the...

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  Barefooted monks in saffron robes against the creeping daylight, a cityscape of colonial aesthetics and ornate temples, sparkling water gently cascading into piles of boulders, and the fiery sky harboring on the mountains hemmed by the river are the lingering dramatic images of Luang Prabang.   Peacefully nestled...

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  Vang Vieng in Laos is neither a hidden paradise nor its wild stories a kept secret. Its tapestry of natural spectacle, thrilling outdoor activities and popular rave parties are what lure tourists into this small town tucked about 155 kilometers north of the capital city, Vientiane.   Lima...

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  Vietnam, from north to south is a nation of colonial vestiges — Chinese pagodas and noodles, French buildings and baguettes, American warplanes and burgers. All these myriad of influences create the enviable cultural experience of what we now know as Vietnam. The town of Dalat in the central...

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  In Nha Trang, chatoyant skyscrapers stump the beautiful tiled roof pagodas, cyrillic script fills the menu pages burying the diacritic filled alphabets and the woodsy soviet fragrance drowns the ethereal scent of burning incense.   The Russians are definitely a dense population in the tourist census of Nha...

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  Much to the usual changing panorama of Vietnam—–where sleek skyscrapers compete to reach the heavens and scooters run riotous on its hawker-filled streets, a small town that hugs the south central coast named Hoi An is wonderfully trapped in a dreamy landscape of bygone centuries.     Hai...

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