Traversing The Orient Magazine

For a sunny and mildew free festive season, Traversing the Orient recommends Christmas on the beach in The Land of Smiles. Traditionally, some of us like to go where the snow is, where it's bloody freezing and where Santa has ...

Georgie Walsh gains insight into the fall of Phnom Penh through the powerful and harrowing images of the French Photojournalist, Roland Neveu Those with a keen interest in mod­ern history may well be familiar with the work of the French photojour­nalist Roland ...

Unscathed by mass tourism, Cambodia’s northeastern province of Ratanakiri is welcoming trekkers, military historians, gem-merchants, and connoisseurs of ethnic tribes to the country’s final frontier. Jim Algie discovers more In 1979, a group of Cambodian villagers fled from the invad­ing hordes of ...

Liz Smailes meets Morimoto Kikuo, the man replanting and nurturing the roots of Cambodia’s silk industry Not far from Cambodia’s Ang­kor temples is the workshop of IKTT (Institute for Khmer Traditional Textiles). Located in Siem Reap and founded by Morimoto ...

During the Khmer Rouge regime over 12,000 Cambodian were tortured and bludgeoned to death in Toul Sleng prison. Only 12 survived. George Walsh recalls meeting Cambodia’s most famous artist and survivor of Toul Sleng prison, Van Nath. During the Khmer ...

Ben Hopkins travels to Laos’ remote province of Hua Phan to explore the caves that once gave shelter from the largest and most expensive paramilitary operation ever conducted by the US Vieng Xai, a dust bowl village in the remote ...

Stranded in Taipei and waiting for political unrest to clear a path back to Bangkok adventure traveler Allison Post ascends the world’s highest building and takes stock of the city below “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and no intent on arriv­ing,” Lao Tzu, became the motto of ...

Jim Algie glides through the corridors of  Kho Samui’s Anantara Resort in a pair of Ghost Rider shorts As I walked into my deluxe room in the Anantara Resort and Spa on Koh Samui, my frst impression was that it seemed a little small and Spartan. But then I noticed there ...

Liz Smailes discovers the green and ruby red combination of tea-leaves and strawberries is truly divine and efective both in and on the body when visiting the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia A three-hour drive north from Kuala Lumpur and high in the Cameron High­ lands awaits a haven of tranquility and a magnificent ...

Ben Hopkins explores the resurgent heart of Hanoi History has lent a turbulent ride to this proud city. After 73 years seething under French occupation along came the Japanese to grasp a steely grip on the city from 1940 to 1945. Upon ...