Several months after arriving back in Los Angeles, we ask our intrepid explorer Vince Robbins to reflect on his ten weeks “On The Road” in South East Asia… here are his highlights and life lessons learned (don’t worry these don’t include “finding himself”). For me traveling is often an experiment;…
Smoking joints in the Khaosan Road and vice “girls” that pee standing up!?! Not for Vince Robbins! Our man “On The Road” sidesteps the sleaze and penetrates the city sprawl to reveal a metropolis of magnificent temples, vast shopping malls and plentiful parks… As a native Los Angeleno, I’m overly…
Words and photos by Keven Erickson and Krystyna Dul. Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand is well known for its fantastic multicultural character. During our travels through southern-east Asia, we were lucky enough to experience an open-air Chinese opera performance, and even better – backstage scenes where the actors…
Words and photos by Christopher Weigl Ao Phang Nga is one of the most beautiful and exotic landscapes in Thailand, a bay crowded with enormous limestone spires soaring above the Andaman Sea’s surface. A large section of the bay is part of Ao Phang Nga National Park, and attractions include…
Whilst millions flock to historic prisons like Alcatraz and S-21 every year, Sasha Arms reports on one of the 21st Century’s most bewildering and controversial travel trends: visiting inmates at high security foreign jails. Defunct prisons have long made for unlikely success stories in the world of tourism: sites like…