Let me tell you something funny: When I first heard about Batu Caves, I thought of a muddy cave. In other words: just one of these many overrated “touristy” sights which the locals tend to overestimate ridiculously. Then I visited. When I turned the corner, looked up and saw the massive 42-meter-tall gold-colored statue of…
To be honest with you, before I visited Kuala Lumpur I thought the Petronas Twin Towers were another place that people go to. You know the kind. People say they are great. They are really just too expensive and full of people taking pictures. I figured I had seen buildings before. How different could the…
Dubai Frame Standing inside a golden rectangle suspended 150 meters above the earth, with old Dubai shimmering behind me and a forest of glass towers reaching ahead — I understood, for the first time, that this city is not one place. It is two cities sharing a skyline, held together by a frame. Arriving at…
Close your eyes for a moment, and imagine yourself stepping into an area where every single object you can see around you — the walls, the arches, the pathways, are completely covered in millions upon millions of brightly colored, fresh flowers. No concrete. No steel. Nothing but flowers, flowers, and even more flowers. Welcome to…
Global Village Dubai. Imagine walking through France, then stepping into India, and then heading over to Brazil — all within 30 minutes. No flight tickets. No passport stamps. Just one big, colorful, noisy, delicious place called Global Village Dubai, where the world meets. If you have never heard of it, you are in for a…
There are a lot of places in the world that you have visited to take photos, post them on your social media, and move on. Then there comes a place that makes you stop and take off your sunglasses, and you just stare at it in silence. The Pakistan Monument in Islamabad is exactly that…
Stand at the entrance on Na Phra Lan Road and the scale of the Grand Palace hits you before you even buy a ticket. A long white wall, topped with pointed battlements, stretches for 1,900 meters around roughly 54 acres of temples, throne halls, and courtyards that easily deserve a slow morning. Above the wall,…
I’ll be honest, I almost skipped Yona Beach Club. A beach club on a boat sounded like something made for Instagram and not much else. But Phuket has a way of making you curious about the strange options, and a pool floating in the middle of the Andaman Sea is definitely strange. So I booked…
Honestly, the first thing I thought when we walked into the park was that it felt like an open-air museum. Red brick towers against a huge blue sky, stone Buddhas sitting quietly in the grass, and barely any noise. Ayutthaya is only about 80 km north of Bangkok, but after the traffic and neon of…
Bangkok Night Market, when the sun goes down, the city of Bangkok does not sleep. It wakes up with a different feeling at the Bangkok Night Market. The air gets cooler, the bright neon lights come on, and you can smell the street food being cooked. If you are going to Thailand, you should really…
