Traveler Tips - Guides for Travelers and Tourists

Brunei is quite possibly one of the best kept secrets in Asia. Where many backpackers have gone on to holiday in overly popular places like Bali or Bangkok, few have ventured into Brunei, which is considered one of the richest countries in…

South Korea will expand and upgrade its bullet train network to cut travel time from the capital to major cities to under an hour and a half and slash greenhouse gas emissions, officials said Sunday. High-speed train services connecting…

Our little village (for Chinese standards) is only a 2 hour bus ride to Xian, a city with over 8 million people. Buses leave every half hour and the road is big and straight the whole way with not many vehicles. This weekend was a long…

Most people have heard how bad the traffic is in Bangkok, Thailand. Until you've spent any time in Bangkok, though, it's difficult to imagine how bad traffic really is. Stationary cars stretch for miles, getting through a red light can…

Tourism Malaysia Promotion Board is now tapping the senior citizens or "third golden age" market in Singapore as part of efforts to lure more of the republic's aging population to visit Malaysia. Tourism Malaysia Director in Singapore…

Thanks in part to the Internet, more tourists have discovered this Cordillera town famous for its hanging coffins and many natural wonders. It’s nice to know, however, that despite the influx of tourism, locals remain accomodating to…

Indonesian Hotels and Restaurants Association (PHRI) believed Yogyakarta and its surroundings are still sought foreign tourists from Japan after the earthquake and tsunami in the country. “Until now no significant decline in Japanese…

Interested in backpacking in Thailand but not sure where to start? Here’s a quick run down of ideas of what to see and do while you’re in this spectacular country. Here’s some of the things I wish people had told me before I went…

Chiang Mai is a tourist city with hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. From my personal travels worldwide I would rate it as very safe. There is only one area in which we would caution and that is in respect to jewelry purchases.…

In Europe, no concensus exists on how to refer to the former ritish colony of Burma, which won independence in 1948. oth versions have linguistic legitimacy. In the Burmese language, Myanmar is the formal term and Burma is the informal,…