Ghosts of Himeji Castle
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Upon Himeyama Hill, in the central part of the Harima Plain, lies the largest and arguably most beguiling castle complex in Japan. Its 83 buildings, spread along a vast terrain, signal...
Category: Asia
Serendipitous Journeys in Sri Lanka
Any story about the Pearl of the Indian Ocean is bound to mention its etymology: the island was called Taprobane by the Greeks, Serendib by the Arabs, Ceilão by the Portuguese, later modified to...
Kids of Tonle Sap and Kompong Phluk
Walking by the shores of Lake Atitlán, seeing screeching kids jump into cold waters and play until they wade ashore shivering, I was reminded of the floating villages of Cambodia. It’s one of the...
Dream Tokyo Metropolis
Tokyo is not a city. It used to be, but it ceased to exist as such on July 1st, 1943. From that moment onwards, the sprawling mass of wood, concrete and people became a...
A Ryokan in Mitakesan
Tokyo can be an overwhelming city. Its electrifying pace and sense of urgency can engulf even the quietest soul, leaving it reeling from dizzying beeps and rowdy blips, crisscrossed pedestrian crosswalks, ghostly multitudes and piercing...
The Painted Veils of Yangshuo County
Shortly after sailing through the magnificent karst peaks of Ha Long Bay, we left Vietnam in search of another bewitching karst landscape: Yangshuo Province, China. We had previously visited Macau and Hong Kong, but...
Who's in charge of this joint anyway? To learn a bit more about the brains behind the bedlam,