Yao Yao’s Top 10 Islands: #7 Majorca, Spain
Read moreThink charming villages that look like cubist paintings and a sophisticated capital city with palm-lined avenues. Think wonderful shopping,…
Flooding in Sri Lanka
Read moreWe have watched the water rise throughout the Yala National Park and finally just rolled up our pants and…
Yao Yao’s Top 10 Islands: #8 Benguerra Island
Read moreYao Yao remembers the island as the place she got to “ fly a plane” (she sat up front),…
Yao Yao’s Top 10 Islands: #9 Pantelleria
Read moreWhen you conjure up the quintessential Italian island in your mind, it probably looks a lot like Capri or…
Yao Yao’s Top 10 Island Countdown: #10 Singapore
Read moreIn our abbreviated stay, we ate at a popular and fairly touristy restaurant on Clark Quay, where I dove…
Sleigh Bells or Temple Bells
Read moreEver since Yao Yao was of school age, we’ve struggled with the Christmas Situation. In a nutshell: We live…
Myanmar: Travel Tips, Tales & More…
Read moreMyanmar is one of the most enticing, mystifying, beguiling, and sometimes foreboding locations you will ever see. Golden pagodas,…
Ngpali, Myamar: Bay of Bengal
Read moreBut once we made the short ride to the hotel, our mood shifted – because there it was, the…
Inle Lake: A Floating World
Read moreEnchanting. Ethereal. Exquisitely fragile. This is Inle Lake. It is a world of floating markets, floating monasteries, floating towns,…
Another Taste of Bagan
Read moreI admit that we had high hopes for Burmese food before we actually got there. Myanmar is bordered by…
Myanmar: Beguiling Bagan
Read moreNo matter how you got here, the best Road from Mandalay is by riverboat.
Wayside Water Stations in Myanmar
Read moreBuddhists in Burma form what are called “water-donating societies” (wainay ya thukha) and set clay water pots along roads…