Asia & Pacific

Reading Time: 3 minutesOrangutans are currently only found in the rainforests of Borneo (an island to the east of Malaysia and south of China) and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. …

Reading Time: 4 minutesYour history class on Cambodia may be a long way back, but if you have seen the 1984 British drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in …

Reading Time: 3 minutesSapa is in Vietnam’s far north, close to the southeastern border of China’s Yunnan Province and is known as the “Land of the Big Skies”. Here, tranquillity …

Reading Time: 2 minutesMosques of Borneo – but where is this island? Borneo Island is the third-largest island in the world and is divided among three countries: the Sultanate of …

Reading Time: 6 minutesSomewhere in the world are still a few places where you can travel for days without seeing any fellow travellers! Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, is …

Reading Time: 5 minutesTravel from Bangkok, or elsewhere, to the town of Pakse in Laos and then take a bus to the over 4,000 islands (locally known as Si Phan …

The Hunza Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan stretches roughly from north of the administrative capital of Gilgit all the way up to the China border. The Hunza River flows through much of …

The capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan region is the town of Gilgit, which is the largest town on the Karakoram Highway before reaching the China border. Gilgit is the starting point to …

At the northern tip of Pakistan, immediately south of Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor and the wild frontier of China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is the autonomous territory of Gilgit-Baltistan. It lies …

We talked with Gilad Fiskus (Tel Aviv, Israel) about his photography and he told us: “I recently debated where to travel next. There are so many exciting destinations to photograph, …