Luang Prabang. It has rhyme and rhythm in its very name. The most gorgeous, and UNESCO World Heritage listed, laid back old royal capital of Laos was definitely the best place to start our Laos travel. We hadn't made more than a draft plan of how we were going to arrive from Bangkok, how we were going to get around, or even exactly when we were going to leave, but everything fell in to place once we took a ridiculously cheap Air Asia flight to Luang Prabang and f...

"Bhutan is a climbing place, always climbing" grumbled an elderly Singaporean as we passed him on steep narrow stairs of the Namgyal stupa. Our legs echo his sentiment. We've just hiked upwards for an hour and now we are climbing 3 storeys of polished wooden steps (in our socks - there is always, always the shoe taking off place) to see each level of this amazing stupa built in 2004 for the Queen Mother. Oh, and this is only one itinerary item for one day of o...

Sri Lanka's colour is white. Though green would immediately come to mind, with the glistening foliage of the ordered tea plantations on impossible slopes, the dripping emerald green of rain forests and the darker forbidding green of tight dense jungles. However it is the white I find intriguing. It is the colour of the many Buddhist stupas and temples here in Sri Lanka, the colour of religious respect, and the colour of learning. Our first day on the road wa...

It takes discipline and dedication to do nothing. Maldives is a classy "fly and flop" destination offering no expectation of you other than to do, well, just nothing. We get it. This a choice for people exhausted by their existence, cowered by their corporate world and wanting to blow a fortune on, well, doing nothing. Our fellow guests do not seem to be honeymooners as we had expected, rather older, high end vacationers. The full force of the monsoon has ...

How lovely to have four nights in the one place and in (for us anyway), a luxury business hotel. The Radison Blu had a great internet special that we grabbed. The location was well into the suburbs, a good hour (by underground train and walking) but suited our purposes and budget.  Oh, the included buffet breakfasts at the Radison Blu were out of this world! Everything imaginable including whole smoked salmon, caviar and pickled herrings. We lingered long over t...