Cambodia

Where in the world is there so much unemployment that it may take five minutes for a foreigner to cross a main street in the capital because so many motorbike riders slow down to offer a lift on their “taxi”?


vietnam

Imagine a country where, to communicate with the outside world, your grandmother spoke French, your mother spoke Russian and you speak English. Which country has suffered so many changes so rapidly?


Brunei with Julie

Which tiny kingdom offers generous housing loans to its citizens, so long as they are of the dominant religion? Where have some jungle villages become ghost towns because people have converted and moved into settlements with hot running water and sealed roads?


kuwait travel

Where did women not have the right to vote till 2015, though some drive luxury cars?


Australian travel writing

Where is the land down under, well known for its hopping fauna? Where do the sun-loving residents get skin cancers as mostly their genes evolved in an utterly different climate?