Pilgrims have long sought in India’s holiest city an antidote to the modern West, but Varanasi is more dream than reality On a sweltering summer..

“Oh, I haven’t been to ‘the Stans’ yet,” an American woman tells me in a rooftop bar in London. We are making polite small talk, the kind where you ..

Traveling the Mae Hong Son Loop is one of the best ways to explore Mae Hong Son, the far-flung northern province of Thailand in a way that will allo..

At 2,565 meters (8,415 ft), Doi Inthanon is the highest mountain in Thailand and it gets the kind of weather you don't usually get in Thailand from ..

When you think of New Zealand, the image of pastel blue-colored lake and colorful fields of purple lupins probably come to mind. That is Lake Tekapo..

New Zealand is probably one of the most beautiful countries in the world thanks to its abundance of untouched nature and remote mountains that will ..

Phrae, or as it is also known as the Gateway to the Lanna Kingdom, is far away from its heyday when it was one of the largest teak trade centers in ..

In 1911, French former opera singer and Buddhist scholar Alexandra David-Néel promised her husband she would be back in 18 months and embarked on wh..

New Zealand is one of those countries where everyone wants to visit and yet when it comes to planning for travelers on a budget, the information is ..

A flock of birds glided below me as I peered down from the wicker basket of a drifting hot air balloon above the Malaysian city of Putrajaya. The cr..