Tokyo dazzles the visitor with its soaring, spectacular skyscrapers and its famous Ginza shopping street with its impressive show of glittering lights and brilliant billboards. To find a little slice of old traditional Tokyo head for the Asakusa district. During the Edo period (1603-1867) Asakusa…
The Old Town of Siem Reap which straddles the tranquil Siem Reap River is a natural base for visitors who wish to explore Angkor. By day, its web of pedestrian streets sees a modest flow of tourists, while locals scurry through the market and go…
We arrived under a sky awash in blue at tiny Gaggal airport where our young Nepali driver was waiting to greet us. He set off like a race car driver along the narrow roads, zipping around hair-pin bends where buses, motorbikes, tuk-tuks, carts, and cows,…
Founded by Czar Peter The Great in 1703, St. Petersburg is a beautiful, seductive city. While Moscow is pristine in every way, St. Petersburg – like a grand, aged member of aristocracy – wears her wrinkles with grace and elegance. We stayed in hotel Domina…
The Buddhist temples, monasteries, stupas/pagodas of Bagan which spread across forty square miles, were built between the 9th and 13th Centuries.(A temple is a place of worship. A stupa/pagoda was built to honor Buddha and hold relics of Buddha or highly revered Buddhist monks. A…
