I read an article once, by a man whose name I cannot remember, which attributed the differences between occidental and oriental cultures to the incidence…
Hundreds of hot air balloons rise with the sun as Bagan, in central Myanmar, wakes to the steady drone of electric motorcycles. Thousands of tourists…
“14-hour work week, why would I ever want to leave this glorious life? *crying laughing emoji*” I met this guy on Tinder, and this is…
Sometimes when you travel, you meet people whose impact on you far outweighs the time you spend with them. For me, Luke was one of…
It was another languid night in the Philippines when my cousins decided to treat me to a local delicacy. We convened around the family dinner…
It was 3am, and I’d been swaying to mindless chart music at a beach bar in Sihanoukville for far too long. When I’d arrived in…
A great deal can be learned about a country from a single train ride. If the eyes are the window to a person’s soul, then…
I’m lying topless on a massage table when the Balinese medicine man punches me in the stomach. I let out a yelp, but I’m not…
I’ve been on this train for 28 hours and have spent countless more jolting across train tracks on previous legs of this 4,389-kilometre overland journey….
We were standing in the line at the konbini with our matcha ice-creams, now 30 minutes over our designated one-hour dinner break. “I don’t give…
The Australian couple 10 feet way away from us asked us to, and I quote, “Get your own beach!” as they casually resumed having sex…
I’m in an abandoned theme park in Bali, peering down at the dishevelled buildings, the walls littered with graffiti and a maze of overgrown foliage….
