Reading Time: 4 minutesSVALBARD ISLANDS, NORWAY: Located about 1,000 kilometres (621 mi) from the North Pole, the Norwegian-administered Svalbard Islands are packed with adventure, all year round. Start your trip …

Reading Time: 5 minutesNorth Korea is a “hermit” country that willfully walls itself off from the rest of the world – based on its Juche Ideology. North Korea is also a “cult hermit …

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: 2 minutesAzerbaijan seems to be a very obscure and possibly considered a “weird place” to many travellers, albeit few have a clue what Azerbaijan is all about.  Even …

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: 4 minutesThere are a few countries still frozen in the Soviet era. Among these are North Korea, Turkmenistan, Transnistria, and Belarus. Though hardly comparable with one another, or …

Reading Time: 4 minutesThere are two countries that are paradise to lovers of vintage cars. The most well known being Cuba where a large proportion of the cars on the …

I have to admit that I know how to make some of the world’s most delicious curries: Thai, Malay and Indian, and often a fusion. My latest creation could be …