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The Night Train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok

The Rapid train is scheduled to depart Chiang Mai at 9:30 p.m., but by 10 it has not arrived from...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Lovely women in traditional costume served our Loy Krathong dinner.

Loy Krathong is a special festival celebration in Thailand in November. Float your sorrows away a...

Thailand MaryLou Driedger

From top to bottom: Sawasdee jao (pronounced 'sawatdee'), sawasdee, jai, aroy, aroy dee, mai pen rai, sabai sabai, sabai.

10 Essential Thai Words and Phrases

1. mai bpen rai , mai mee bpunhaa The first phrase roughly translates to "it doesn't matter", the...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Front cover for Warrior Odyssey

Book review: Warrior Odyssey - Antonio Graceffo

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to set off on a quest around Asia, researching and d...

Thailand / Vietnam / Myanmar David Calleja

Book cover for Antonio Graceffo's upcoming book, Warrior Odyssey.

A Warrior's Odyssey - Interview with Antonio Graceffo

Antonio Graceffo's eagerly anticipated new book, Warrior Odyssey, covers the beginning of his tre...

Thailand / Vietnam / Myanmar David Calleja

Hot air balloons or Khom Loy at the Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai Thailand

The Loi Krathong Festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand

If you like candles placed in colorful paper lanterns, fireworks, beautiful girls in traditional ...

Thailand Randy Gaudet

Wat Phra Ram, oldest Ayutthayan temple

Amazing Ruins of Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya , whose name means “undefeatable” in Sanskrit, may not be as popular...

Thailand ARIEL NOBLE

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My life In Tokyo

Just a couple pics from my hood.

Thailand / Japan Stephen Bueckert

Ban Chang, Thailand. Two students perform traditional dance to celebrate Loy Kratong. In their left hands they hold a lotus flower containing a candle.

As with many traditional festivals, the Thai festival of Loy Krathong, known as Yi Peng in the no...

Thailand Kenneth Champeon

Bangkok Air runs several daily flights between Bangkok and Siem Reap.

Discount Airlines of Asia

Dozens of low-cost airlines have been launched recently in Asia, transforming the continent's tra...

Thailand / Indonesia / Singapore ThingsAsian

The rapids on the Nam Khan River were a little more challenging than I thought

Kayaking Adventure

Kayaking down the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang in Laos...

Thailand / Vietnam / Myanmar MaryLou Driedger

og Broen over floden Kwai

Der er liv på dødens jernbane

[Read the English version] 16.000 allierede krigsfanger mistede livet her - og flere end 100.000 ...

Thailand / Myanmar Bjarne Madsen

An Indochinese tiger at the Pha Luang Ba Tua Buddhist temple, in Thailand's Kanchanaburi province.

A Thai Monk's Buddhist Tigers

* * * KANCHANABURI, Thailand, May 10, 2004 - Walking fully grown tigers on a leash is all part of...

Thailand AFP/Jack Barton

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American Boarding Schools - a book review

A directory of American Boarding Schools, compiled with international students in mind...

Thailand / Vietnam / Singapore Ernie Yap

Thai massage at Wat Po, Bangkok, Thailand.

Thai Massage Missionary

At the Wat Po School of Traditional Medicine and Massage, students learn a discipline which dates...

Thailand Jim Algie

Go to the movies with Celeste...

Celeste Goes to the Movies

Film Reviews by Celeste Heiter

Thailand / Vietnam / Japan Celeste Heiter

I would not want to waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum Frances Willard - 1893

Vientiane on bended knees

A colorful journey on 20" wheels, across the land of a thousand smiles into the land where time m...

Thailand / Vietnam / Cambodia Lee Alvin

Shanghai Old Street, Shanghai, China.

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Thailand / Vietnam / Malaysia ThingsAsian

The Bridge on the River Kwai

There's life on the railway of death

Translated from Danish by Andrew Huddleston [Read the Danish version] 16,000 allied prisoners of ...

Thailand / Myanmar Bjarne Madsen

In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering ...

Thailand / China / India Kenneth Champeon

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