Asia articles

It's all about the food — Cooking classes in Asia
Features, January 2009 issue.
by Sandra Scott, Mexico, NY

Balay Inato Pension, Palawan, Philippines
Accommodations Worldwide, January 2009 issue.
My friend Susan Carrasco and I spent two weeks on Palawan Island in the Philippines in April ’08.

Boarding Pass
Columns, December 2008 issue.
Dear Globetrotter:

Travel Tidbits
Travel Tidbits, December 2008 issue.
In the Winelands on the Western Cape of South Africa, my husband, Maurice, and I stopped in Tulbagh for lunch, ordering the tasty traditional dish bobotie (spicy minced meat topped with egg).

Persistence pays off for a visit to Abkhazia
Features, December 2008 issue.
by Thomas Flannigan, Chicago, IL

Cruise to Asmat, West Papua
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
I took an amazing 2-week, September-October cruise through the islands east of Bali, Indonesia, to Asmat, West Papua.

The Beijing Olympics
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
Well over a year before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, my wife, Margi, and I discussed the possibility of attending. Never having attended any Olympic event but having some familiarity with China, we felt this might be a unique opportunity.

Coping with and fighting poverty during travels
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
When my husband, Frank, and I planned our trip to India, we wondered how we would react to seeing people living in third-world slums or on the street, and to beggars, especially children. Would we feel so guilty about having the money to travel that we couldn’t enjoy our trip?

Chilka & Simlipal disappointed
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.
My husband, Clyde, and I were in Orissa, India, in February ’07. Like Joyce Bruck (Sept. ’08, pg. 40), we visited Lake Chilka hoping to see the migrating birds in that famous bird sanctuary and were disappointed. A few ducks swam by our boat but nothing terribly exotic or exciting.

Yosakoi Soran in Sapporo
Travelers' Intercom, December 2008 issue.