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Mountain biking in Nepal's Mustang valley
Life, Published on 09/05/2013
» Thailand has some fantastic mountain bike trails and although my wife and I ride often, we know we've barely scratched the surface. Still, about once a year the urge to go and ride someplace else, with different trails, scenery and culture, becomes irresistible.
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Poles Apart
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2013
» The spirit of rebirth is almost palpable as you walk the streets and hear the stories of Warsaw. Wiped off the map in the 19th century, reduced to ashes by German planes and panzers in 1939 and consigned to suspended animation during the four decades of repressive Stalinist rule that followed, this metropolis _ and the country of which it is capital _ has endured a succession of traumatic misfortunes that it has somehow survived, integrity intact, to reassert its proud identity in the 21st century.
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City in a garden
Life, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 15/11/2012
» Singapore has done it again. Gardens by the Bay, which recently opened in the Lion City's Marina Bay area, is unique for its size and landscape design.
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City steeped in time
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/11/2012
» Zhang Yongping recalls his grandmother telling him how, back in her youth, Xi'an used to be surrounded by rice fields and forests as far as the eye could see and how the gates to the walled city would be closed and barred at sunset and not re-opened for any reason until the following morning.
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All that wasn't washed away
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 19/08/2012
» At Koh Kret a Mon man points to a mark on the wall at the height of his head. "The water was here," he says of last October and November. "It was a bad time."
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Yen and the art of travelling on the cheap
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 02/09/2012
» There is a sign on the door of the Capsule Inn Tajima near Ueno Station in Tokyo discouraging tattooed patrons from making use of the baths or overnight capsules. This is aimed at Yakuza, organised crime figures, who once had leverage over urban businesses but whose influence has waned somewhat in recent years, even in the entertainment districts where they used to thrive.
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A capital adventure
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 20/09/2012
» River breeze and morning sunlight softly touched our skin while a large group of Thai tourists were cruising on the Irrawaddy River. We had left the old Myanmar capital of Mandalay and were bound for three other major cities. The trip centred on Thai art in Myanmar, along with other famous cultural attractions. The art is believed to have been the work of Siamese war prisoners brought to Myanmar after the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767, and their descendants.
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Seven Thai beaches voted Top 10 Asian beaches
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 20/04/2012
» The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has revealed that one of the world's largest tourism information websites, tripadvisor.com, named seven Thai beaches in the top 10 of the Traveller's Choice Awards 2012's Beach Destinations in Asia.
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'Asia's Vegas' more than bright lights
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 13/05/2012
» Mediterranean-style cobblestone squares. Chinese shophouses. Western brand outlets. Cantonese dim sum for brunch and galinha a Portuguesa (Portuguese-style chicken) for dinner. Sixteenth-century cathedrals and forts stand beside Chinese mansions and gardens, or temples thick with incense. Garish high-rise casinos and decrepit apartment blocks form a backdrop over narrow winding lanes along the old city walls _ a clash of tastes that mesmerises and disorients.
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Up close and personal
Life, Peerawat Jariyasombat, Published on 15/03/2012
» Driving to Vietnam on your own may sound a bit crazy, risky and time consuming. But it is a great way to learn about our neighbouring country up close and personal. Today, with more road links and less travel restrictions, it has become much easier to drive there from Thailand.
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