Immersed in mixed feelings, I boarded my flight for Kunming to take part in the “Chinese Bridge Summer Camp 2015” on October 30.

Everything was autumn- the infinite yellow and blue-grey canvas of a sky with an adequate amount of what looked like white brush strokes smeared across in a pattern...

The Munda are an ethnic community of the Sundarbans mangrove ecological zone. Originating in India, the Munda people travelled to Bangladesh around 300 years ago and have been here ever since.

The Soe Brothers Guesthouse jointly organises a roundtrip with the Breeze guesthouse in Mawlamyine.

Solitude is a remarkable thing; it can make a philosopher out of anyone. I spent a quiet year in the south of Thailand in a place called Songkhla.

If you haven’t taken the train in Myanmar, you haven’t actually been there. Despite the myriad complaints for being slow, incompetent, late, poor in service quality and unpredictable bumpy rides, it’s the trains that speak of a uniquely diverse nation, unwraps a country blessed by Mother Nature while enabling one to feel its pulse.

A most curious thing happened recently. I realized that while people love to reminisce over the wonderful places from past vacations, the only thing I remember is the food. The glorious, glorious food.

With thousands of years of history and heritage behind it, today India is recognised as being one of the largest multicultural countries in Asia...

When was the last time you stopped and took a deep long breath to smell the fresh air? Life in the metropolis can sometimes be claustrophobic. With the hectic work schedule, blazing horns and blinding lights it is very easy to get lost in the commotion that is Dhaka city. So where do you go in this concrete jungle to sit, think and contemplate your day away? Here are a few places in the city where you can relax and take a breath.

The near 5 hour boat journey from Mrauk U to Sittwe commenced at 8 in the morning. Both floors of the ferry became packed with half awaken local commuters.

Thanks to the Western media and its immense influence on us, we picture Iran as an extremist/horrific country. In reality, it is quite the contrary. These are some misinformation on Iran which people seem to believe.

Promoted by advocacy groups and social media the country came out of the Pandora’s isolation box some 5 years ago and rapidly catching up with the top tourist destinations in Asia. It’s big, it’s bombastic and it’s ambitious. Shahriar Feroze is stitching a five part travel tale from the country that recently came out of self-imposed obscurity...Myanmar

I used to pack light as a travelling teenager but then Facebook happened. Suddenly I HAD to take those nude pumps I could barely walk in with me wherever I would go. “Who's looking?” bemused mum would ask. Uh, everyone on my friend list, mum!

Along the Eastern bank of the Sanjiangkou, a confluence of three rivers: Yuyao, Fenghua and Yongjiang, is one of Ningbo’s (Zhejiang province, China) major tourist attraction...

Dawn peeps in on the chatter of crickets and birds. The forested hills make way to an unsuspecting audience waking up to the shimmer of the first rays through the tree tops.

Sarawak, situated on the northwest of Borneo Island, is known as the Land of the Hornbills. Forests are its most valuable assets and resources, yielding timber and a large amount of jungle produce. The state's rainforest is a sanctuary to a phenomenal myriad of more than 8000 species of flora and over 20000 fauna, the majority of which are insects.

A walk around the historical block of Nantang, in Ningbo of China to get a glimpse of the weekend activities of the local people, and to try out some of their traditional delicacies.

Parbatipur Station, awash in the monsoon rain, welcomes us with a bustle and hurry of people as our train comes to a halt there in the late evening.

Like Alice, we too often time would like to just vanish down the rabbit-hole and reemerge to find our own proverbial wonderland. However, in a city choked with traffic and crammed with concrete, such a lovely respite is unthinkable.

According to traditional beliefs, the seventh month in the lunar calendar is when restless spirits roam the earth. That seventh month usually falls around August or September and all over Asia, communities mark the festival of the hungry ghost in their own fashion.